Top 10 Ethnic Shopping
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1. Broadway, Astoria
Astoria has the largest Greek community outside Greece, with restaurants, coffee shops, and bakeries on Broadway.
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2. Main Street, Flushing
Flushing’s Chinatown offers bakeries, food, gifts, restaurants, herbal remedies, and acupuncture. Queensborough Library has material in 40 languages.
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3. 74th Street, Jackson Heights
New York’s Indian community’s shop windows are filled with ornate gold jewelry and rich saris. Food stores are redolent with spices.
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4. Roosevelt Avenue, Jackson Heights
Around the corner from Indian 74th Street, loudspeakers play Latin American rhythms, street vendors sell hot churros (fried dough), and shops offer music, foods, gaucho boots, hats, and piñatas.
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5. Arthur Avenue, Bronx
In this Italian neighborhood, dozens of small, family-run stores sell everything from Italian wines, handmade pastas, and sausages to rosaries and votive candles.
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6. Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint
Shops in America’s largest Polish community are laden with home made kielbasas and babkas , statues of saints, Polish books, music, and cosmetics.
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7. Brighton Beach Avenue, Brooklyn
Known as “Little Odessa,” Russian is the first language on this busy street selling everything from smoked fish to Russian dolls. A boardwalk stroll by the sea is a bonus.
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8. 13th Avenue, Borough Park
The main street of Borough Park, home to America’s largest Orthodox Jewish community, bustles with shops filled with religious articles, tempting baked goods, children’s clothing, and linens.
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9. 18th Avenue, Bensonhurst
Headquarters of an old-world Italian community, the street is lined with coffee shops, bakeries, and delis.
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10. Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
New York’s Middle-Eastern shopping center offers baklava, varieties of olives, dried fruits, spices, and traditional clothing.
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