Manhattan, Queens and Long Island in New York City are a part of what is famously known as the ‘melting pot’ and houses nearly a quarter of USA’s South Asian population.

If you are a part of this amazing diversity, make your life more ‘desi’ with a flavor of the Indian kitchens and brightly colored ethnic wear. Jackson Heights in Queens, New York City is the principal shopping area for South Asians in the New York metropolitan region. Teeming with stores of every kind - saree boutiques, beauty parlors, travel agents, insurance agents, jewelry stores, restaurants, antique outlets, immigration law firms, music shops, mithaiwalallahs and more, this is the place to go. The street between Roosevelt and 37th avenues, which the local merchants’ association has considered naming ‘Little India,’ is a bustling hub of Indian merchandise that draws a large number of the city’s 180,000 Indian Americans regularly. A street in Jackson Heights was also named ‘Kalpana Chawla Way,’ a memorial to the late Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who lost her life along with six others in the February 2003 crash of space shuttle Columbia.

Jackson Heights is a great neighborhood for stocking up on Bollywood films and music. Start out right by seeing the feature film at the Palace Theater on 37th Road.
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