A little boy anxiously waits outside of the store for some sweetness. Let's hope Mom choses the right ones.
Oooh I do love those escapades from the city, ... in the city!
Hop on the 7 train and ten to fifteen minutes later, boom!, you're in India! Which, of course is in Queens!
Leave the subway one station earlier and you'll walk thru all the colors and flavors of Latin America before reaching Little India (around Roosevelt Avenue and 74th Street, near Broadway).
Notable residents: (it's amazing the things we learn - thank you Wikipedia!)
• Reflective of the tremendous diversity of the neighborhood, actors Lucy Liu, John Leguizamo, Susan Sarandon, Kevin Dobson, and Carroll O'Connor grew up in Jackson Heights, as did comedian Don Rickles, writer/director Peter Hoffman, film critic Jami Bernard, musician Gene Simmons of the rock group Kiss, playwright John Guare and Richard Grasso, former chairman of the NYSE.
• Charles Chaplin had an apartment in the building The Towers in Historical Jackson Heights
• Scrabble was invented by resident Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938, and perfected at Community Methodist Church. (A commemorative street sign at the corner of 35th Ave and 81st St, where the church still stands, was erected by the city in 2004.)
And, (again, thank you, thank you Wikipedia!), if like me, you are a movie fan and have seen Marial Full of Grace, "major portions of the film where shooted on location in Jackson Heights". If you have not seen it, do yourself a favor and rent it. For a peek, click on the link of the movie title. It's a wonderful little movie.
For more on Jackson Heights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Heights,_Queens. It also lists a plethora of websites dedicated this exotic neighborhood.
Any exotic neighborhoods in your city?
7 comments:
Wow, I've never been to NYC, and didn't know there's a Little India there. Nice photo of yummy sweets (mithai).
It's festive season in India, and the time when every Hindu household is buying and relishing sweets.
There's a Little India in Singapore too.
I find all of your photos and posts interesting, but this really caught my eye:
Scrabble was invented by resident Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938, and perfected at Community Methodist Church. (A commemorative street sign at the corner of 35th Ave and 81st St, where the church still stands, was erected by the city in 2004.)
If you've got a minute, look at my other blog, http://mamamepdx.blogspot.com and you will understand why I found it so interesting. Thanks.
Very interesting info, and I like the sweet photo. I can't think of any exotic neighborhoods here. Guess we are too small. Ours are mostly antebellum, Victorian and traditional.
María Full of Grace, great movie, yes. Very sad, too.
I'm not crazy about Indian sweets but right now (and because of this post!) I'm craving samosas so badly you wouldn't believe.
No exotic 'hoods around here. :(
That's near my hood. :-)
Jackson Heights has the best Thai, Korean and Indian food.
•any: thanks for visiting. The Little India I refer to here is in Queens but it is worth the trip if you want to see what the melting pot is all about. Thanks for your insights!!
•lynette: thank you - you are too kind. I enjoyed your post about scarbble immensely.
•rambling: thanks for stopping by.
•fénix:I found the sweets in the store so beautiful. But to be honest I am a bit intimidated. I have no clue what to ask for. Maybe I could just ask a bit of everything.
Nothing exotic? Don't you have a Chinatown? And a Little Italy in Boston?
•ming: I had a feeling it was not too far when you posted the story of the Flying Chicken. I need to explore the Korean and Thai options next time I visit!
Mmm. Indian sweets. I work with a lot of folk from the subcontinent and whenever they return from trips there sweets are brought back in quantity. Always something to look forward to, beside my coworkers refilling the gaps they left. Eliane - you've been checking out and commenting on my blog quite a bit lately! It's taken me a while for me to reciprocate. But I dig the consistent quality of your photos and commentary. Be back again.
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