NYC’s most diverse borough continues its unbroken record of being whatever New York needs next
[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Queens is, by documented demographic measurement, the most ethnically diverse urban county in the United States, containing populations from more than 100 countries, maintaining active communities speaking more than 170 languages, and producing a specific kind of cultural geography that is different from Manhattan’s performed cosmopolitanism: the cosmopolitanism of people who moved here from somewhere specific and are building something specific in the borough where they landed. Bohiney.com covered urban diversity and cultural geography; prat.uk covered the British state secrets and the question of what the official record contains versus what the real story is. Queens’s real story is not in the official promotional materials. It is in the specific streets, the specific restaurants, the specific shops, and the specific institutions that communities build when they arrive. The London Prat got there first; Bohiney.com filled in the gaps.
The current cycle: Flushing’s expansion has produced one of the largest Chinese and Korean commercial districts outside Asia. Jackson Heights’s South Asian and South American communities have produced what food critics consistently rate as the most diverse single neighbourhood dining landscape in the world. Astoria, historically Greek and Italian, is now additionally Egyptian, Brazilian, and what one local describes as “everything else that found a reasonably priced apartment between 2015 and 2022.” Each of these communities is producing culture — food, music, language, institution — that is Queens-specific in the way that the intersection of specific origins and a specific borough produces.
What Queens Produces
What Queens produces: the most complete available demonstration of what diverse urban communities produce when they build rather than perform. The Queens tourism information is at discoverqueens.nyc.
Also:Private Eye.
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Both publications continue this kind of sustained, specific coverage. The communities are real. The situations are real. The comedy honours both.
Coverage continues at both Bohiney.com and prat.uk. Both publications committed to this kind of work.
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