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WITH THE MOST DIVERSE MIX OF PEOPLES AND CULTURES IN THE USA! FIND EXOTIC

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FROM FAR THEY CAME, FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST AND FROM THE NORTH AND FROM THE SOUTH; FROM ISLANDS AND CONTINENTS, FROM SEA AND VALLEY. THEY CAME WITH THEIR SPOUSES AND THEIR CHILDREN, IF THEY WERE LUCKY.SOME WITH THEIR JOYS, AND SOME WITH THEIR BURDENS, TO THIS PLACE CALLED QUEENS, TO FIND NEW LIVES AND PERHAPS, NEW LOVES.

THIS IS NOW HOME, TO THE INDIANS, THE WEST INDIANS, JEWS AND CROATS, ASIANS AND MEXICANS AUSTRALIANS AND KOREANS, THIS IS NOW THE PLACE THAT FOR THEM IS PERHAPS, THEIR ONLY HOME, THEY'VE COME TO WORK FOR THEIR PIECE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.

HERE IN QUEENS, YOU THE VISITOR, OR THE NEW SETTLER, WILL FIND PEOPLE AND THEIR CULTURES, FROM ALMOST AS MANY COUNTRIES AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.

ENTER THIS WORLD, A MELTING POT OF SO MANY OTHER WORLDS, AND A PLACE YOU WILL FIND SO MUCH TO BE FACINATED OVER - LET'S EXPLORE QUEENS TOGETHER!

The last US census, updated in 2005, showed a population increase, in Queens, from, 1.95 million to 2,215,339, with 46 percent of those being foreign born.

The Hispanic population increased from 381,120 in 1990, to 582,338 in 2005 and the number of Asians, from 229,830 to 463,958. These two groups - for the purposes of the census - are the groups that grew the most in Queens over this period

Queens has the largest foreign born population in New York. Source: The New York Department of City Planning

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AFRICAN-AMERICANS Make up about 70% of the

population of Southeast Queens. In areas like Laurelton,

Springfield Gardens, St. Albans, Queens Village, South Ozone Park, Far Rockaway, Hollis.

CHINESE - Since 1986,

Flushing has been

regarded as the home of

Chinese immigrants

in Queens, though there

are some communities in Ridgewood and Long Island City.

CARIBEAN NATIONALS, including GUYANESE, are found in Southeast Queens among the Jamaican-Americans. Guyanese and TRINIDADIANS, are mostly,found in Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and Hillside. LIBERTY AVENUE is where you'll find a lot of people from these two Countries.

RUSSIANS & EASTERN EUROPEANS

Sections of Forest Hills and Rego Park, Kew Gardens and the Rockaways are sometimes called Mini-Moscows!

GERMANS first settled in Ridgewod, Glendale and College Point. Their decendents are found in thes areas up to today.

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