Queens
— — more languages on one block than most cities have.
Not only on a wall.
“The largest of New York's five boroughs by area, holding about 2.4 million people across neighbourhoods that read like a stack of small countries. Astoria for the Greek bakeries, Jackson Heights for the Indian and Colombian streets, Flushing for the deepest Chinese food east of San Francisco, Long Island City for the new towers along the water with Manhattan right across the East River. A century ago, the World's Fair came here twice.
Queens, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Queens covers about 109 square miles on the western end of Long Island, the largest of New York City's five boroughs by area and the second most populous after Brooklyn. Roughly 2.4 million people live here, speaking more than 150 languages, which has made it the most linguistically diverse urban county in the world. To the west, the East River separates it from Manhattan; to the north, the Long Island Sound; to the south, Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways. Both LaGuardia and JFK airports sit inside the borough.
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the second-largest park in New York City at 897 acres, was twice the World's Fair site, in 1939 and 1964. The Unisphere, the 12-storey stainless-steel globe built for the 1964 fair, still stands at the centre. The park also holds Citi Field, where the Mets play, and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, host to the US Open every late August. The 7 train runs the length of northern Queens, connecting Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights, and Flushing in about thirty minutes.
More than half of Queens residents were born outside the United States. Jackson Heights alone has been called the most diverse neighbourhood in the world, with a Roosevelt Avenue strip that runs Colombian arepa carts, Tibetan momo shops, Bangladeshi sweet houses, and Indian sari stores within four blocks. Flushing's downtown is now considered the largest Chinatown in North America by population. The borough's restaurant culture, anchored by these neighbourhoods, has reshaped how New Yorkers eat. The 7 train was once branded the International Express by the Queens Council on the Arts.