Jackson Heights Community
The melting pot of culture and diversity where many immigrants reside in within the Jackson Heights Community that resides in Queens. With a vast amount of people and unity between cultures living amongst each other, there is also a deep issue of crimes surrounding the community.
The corner of 74st is crowded as always as you begin walking through Roosevelt Ave.
Many going through the day running errands on the bustling street of Roosevelt Ave.
“I’ve been here for 20 years. Before it was good but neighborhood, but now it isn’t the same.”
“There is so much injustice here that we have to pay for others . We just want to work in peace. I’ve worked in this area for four years.”
Mostly in every store you will find affordable products where you can’t believe that the price was cheaper than expected.
Many spas around Jackson Heights have been linked to prostitution within their business . To your far right, you see a woman from a spa waiting for someone to be close by to hand them a flyer however it is only towards the male demographic.
As you walk down, you find different types of people such as a man reciting and murmuring words from a book out on the open.
”Even though I’ve been working here for only two years, compared to Myrtle & Wyckoff, Jackson Heights people treat each other the same and the commercial part of this area is cheaper”, says owner of a taco stand.
Under the 7 train 82st stop, people from many ethnic backgrounds, many stop and smell the amount of street food before heading home or to the station.
With prices at ultimate high, cost of renting has gone up.
Many continue to go on about their day on a Tuesday afternoon.
A every block on Jackson Heights, there are bars for the night time crowd that roams in these streets.
