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Designer shoes, Madison Avenue
Right
Household goods on display
Ethnic Shopping
Broadway, Astoria
Astoria has the largest Greek
community outside Greece, with
restaurants, coffee shops, and
bakeries on Broadway.
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Broadway,
Astoria, Queens
•
Subway Broadway
Nassau Avenue,
Greenpoint
Shops in America's largest Polish
community are laden with home
made
kielbasas
and
babkas
, stat-
ues of saints, Polish books, music,
and cosmetics.
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Nassau Avenue,
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
•
Train to Nassau Av
Main Street, Flushing
Flushing's Chinatown offers
bakeries, food, gifts, restaurants,
herbal remedies, and acupuncture.
Queensborough Library has mat-
erial in 40 languages.
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Main Street,
Flushing, Queens
•
Subway Main St
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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Brighton Beach Avenue,
Brooklyn
•
Subway 55th St
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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74th Street, Jackson Heights,
Queens
•
Subway Roosevelt Av
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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13th Avenue, Borough Park,
Brooklyn
•
Subway 55th St
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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Roosevelt Avenue, Jackson
Heights, Queens
•
Subway Roosevelt Av
18th Avenue, Bensonhurst
Headquarters of an old-world
Italian community, the street is
lined with coffee shops, bakeries,
and delis.
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18th Avenue, Bensonhurst,
Brooklyn
•
Subway 18th Av
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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Arthur Avenue, Bronx
•
Subway
Fordham Rd
Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
New York's Middle-Eastern
shopping center offers baklava,
varieties of olives, dried fruits,
spices, and traditional clothing.
d
Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
•
Subway
Court St
For more on shopping in New York
See p165
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