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Jackson Heights is more vibrant than ever!  There is always something exciting to do or see.  Whether it is taking in a show, enjoying an outdoor festival, attending a community class, or simply hanging out and enjoying Jackson Heights’s unique culture. It is the people that make Jackson Heights special.  This is a place to work, live and call home. 

The community is the home to various houses of  worship from a wide array of religions. Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church is located between 82 nd and 83 street on 35th avenue. The Jackson Heights Jewish Center is located on the corner of 77th street and 37th avenue.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jackson  Heights is a neigborhood in North-western portion of the borough in New York city, USA. The neigborhood is part of Queens Community Board 3.

Jackson Heights is an Urban melting pot with many ethnic populations, but  mainly consists of Latin Americans,multi-generational European, and Asian Americans. The Hispanic american population consists of a various  mix of latinos from many latin american countries mainly Colombia,Ecuador,Peru,Bolivia,Argentina,Uruguay and Mexico who followed the Cuban initial immigrants. There is also an older population of Europeans of multi-generational Italian,Jewish,Polish and Irish descendent that have remained in the area. The surgin Asian  american community includes immigrants from India,Pakistan, Bangladesh,China,Korea and Philippenes. An additional surge is also coming from newly arriving Easter European nations and the former Soviet Union Countries. There is a commercial section of Jackson Heights known as "Little India" that is located between 37th avenue and Broadway primarily on 73rd and 74th streets.

A Typical Residential Street in Jackson Heights.

Jackson Heights is also where the IRT Flushing Line(7<7>) train meets the IND Queens Boulevard Line (E F G RV) and numerous bus routes at the 74th Street-Brodway transportation hub,whic has recently recived a $100+ million renovation by the MTA.[1]

 It includes one of the first green building by the MTA, the new Victor Moore A.Bus terminal" that is partially powered by solar panels built into the roof.

It is the largest subway stop in Queens with six lines (E,F,R,7,G) and four buses (Q33,Q19B,Q45 and Q47).The Q33 bus goes to La Guardia Airport's main terminals and operates 24 hours a day. The Q47 bus goes to The Marine air terminal. The Long Island Rail Road Woodside Station is nearby on 61th street and Roosevelt Av., which is two stops on # 7 train.

The community is bounded by Northern Boulevard to the North, The Brooklyn-Queesn Expressway to the West,Roosevelt Ave to the South, and Junction Blvd to the East.  East Elmhurst, the area inmediately to the North, from Northern Blvd. to the Grand Central Parkway,thought not part of the original development, is sometimes regarded as a northward extension of the neigborhood. The Jackson Heights names comes from Jackson Avenue, the former name for Northern Blvd.( the Jackson Avenue name is retained by this major road in a short strecht between Queensboro Plaza and the Queens Midtown Tunnel approaches, in the Long Island city neigborhood.)

HISTORY

Most of the neigborhood  is a national register Historic District and about half is a designated New York City Historic District By the New York City Landmarks preservation Commission. It comprises large Garden apartment buildings( the term was invented  for builldings in Jackson Heights) and many groupings of private homes. It was a planned development laid out by Edward A. MacDougall's Queensboro corporation beginning about 1917, and following the arrival of the no. 7 elevated line between Manhattan and Flushing. The community was initially planned  as a place for middle to upper middle income workers from Manhattan to raise their families. The Jackson Heights New York State and National Register Districts range from parts of 87st street through part of 76th street. A former gof course located between 76th street and 78th streets and 34th and 37th avenues was built upon during the 1940s.

Jackson Heights is among the first  garden city communities built in the United States, as part of the International Garden city movement at the  turn of the last century. There are many private parks( historically called gardens by the residents) within walking distance of each other. They are tucked in the Mid-blocks,mostly hidden from view by the buildings surrounding them. Several approach the size of Gramercy Park in Manhattan, and one is slightly larger. Unless given an invitation, entry is restricted to those who own a co-op around its perimeter. the basis for the private ownership of the  parks of Jackson Heights is derived from its funding principle: as a privately-owned little gardencity, built largerly under the oversight of one person.

EDUCATION

Students attend P.S>69(http://schools.nyc.gov/OurSchools/Region4/Q069/default.htm?searchType=school)

or P.S. 212( http://schools.nyc.gov/OurSchools/Region4/Q212/default.htm?searchType=school) or several other primary schools. Middle Schools in the neigborhood included I.S.145(http://schools.nyc.gov/OurSchools?Region4Q245/default.htm?searchType=school) and I.S.230 (http://nyc.gov/OurSchools/Region4Q230/default.htm?searchType=school)There is also a public Charter School (the renaissance Charter ShoolO as well as various private schools such as the preparatoy The Garden School and Parochial Schools such as St Joan of Arc, Our Lady of Fatima, and the Blessed Sacrament School/ Hebrew School is also offered at the Jewish Center Of Jackson Heights.

• Public High Schools include:
• Stuyvesant High School
• Academy of American Studies.
• Townsend Harris High School
• Brooklyn Tecnical High School
• Bronx High School Of Science.

Private high schools include: