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Queens is New York City’s Diverse Borough


Queens is the most diverse place on Earth. Over 200 languages are spoken here.

Jackson Heights is a diverse neighborhood where many of us begin our New York lives. You can travel the world walking down Roosevelt Avenue, and the streets around it.

Flushing is a mostly Chinese neighborhood. On some streets, you wonder what country you are in because most of the signs are in Chinese. The food is great.

Latin culture in Queens is anchored by:

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Latin Culture in Queens


Teatro Fest NYC is a Festival of Hispanic Theatre

IATI THEATER, East Village, Manhattan 🇻🇪
INTAR Theatre, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇨🇺
PREGONES/PRTT, Mott Haven, The Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇵🇷
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL, Kips Bay, Manhattan 🇨🇺
TEATRO CIRCULO, East Village, Manhattan 🇵🇷
TEATRO LATEA, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷
TEATRO SEA, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷
THALIA SPANISH THEATER, Sunnyside, Queens 🇪🇸

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Queens News


Kupferberg Center for the Arts is the Performing Arts Center at Queens College

Marko “El Poder de un chisme” Venezuelan comedy 🇻🇪
Cinco de Mayo: Mariachi Real de México with José Adán Pérez, Tlen Huicani from Veracruz, Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Nueva York, Mexican mariachi, son jarocho, ballet folklórico 🇲🇽
Grupo Niche Colombian salsa 🇨🇴
Greeicy Rendón Colombian pop 🇨🇴

FLUSHING, Queens

La Boom is a Night Club with Latin, Urban, and Mexican Nights

Latin Night dance party: DJs Lecktra Fire, Alex Viva, Boom 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴
Spanglish Saturdays urban and Latin dance party: Una Noche de Aventura con Max Agende and DJs Camilo, Pereira, and Manny Mills 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇱
La Adictiva banda sinaloense 🇲🇽

WOODSIDE, Queens


Queens Neighborhoods



Latin Queens


Latin Art

  • Queens Museum of Art, in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, is the main art museum in Queens.

Latin Dance

  • Calpulli Mexican Dance Company is a community dance company that performs like professionals.
  • La Boom, in Woodside, is a popular Latin nightclub with dancing to live music and DJs. Fridays are guest artists. Spanglish Saturdays is an urban Latin DJ dance party. Sundays are Mexican night.

Latin Film

  • Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, is New York City’s museum of film.
  • Queens World Film Festival is a film festival of emerging filmmakers that brings the world to Queens, and Queens to the world. 🗽

Latin Food

  • Rio Market, in Astoria, is a Brazilian market in Queens’ “Little Brazil.”

Latin Music

  • Flushing Town Hall, in Flushing, is a performing arts center that presents the diversity of Queens.
  • Terraza 7 is New York City’s most Latin night club. The owner is Colombian, but no matter where you are from in Latin America, you will feel at home.

Latin Sports

  • Citi Field is the home of the New York Mets.

Latin Theatre

  • Queens Theatre is the borough’s main performing arts center.
  • Thalia Spanish Theatre is a bilingual community theater with a Spanish artistic director.

About Queens


Queens, New York City (Carla P. White/Dreamstime)

Queens Government

The borough is served by Queens Community Boards 1-14 working with the Queens Borough President.

Queens Parks

Flushing Meadows Corona Park is the big park in Queens.

Queens Botanical Garden is a lovely public garden in Flushing, Queens.

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