In preparation for Valentine's Day, the Neighborhood Plaza Partnership set up a camera in Jackson Heights' Diversity Plaza to learn how to say "I love you" in some of the 138 languages spoken in Queens.
Diversity Plaza lives up to its name. In the video you'll hear Farsi, Bangla, Hungarian, Italian, Urdu, Basaa, and Tibetan.
Located in the heart of a busy Jackson Heights retail district just one block from a major bus and subway hub, the plaza has been adopted by local business owners, including some who opposed it at first. In the last two years it has hosted an Eid-ul-Fitr celebration during Ramadan and even an outdoor meeting of Community Board 3.
The Neighborhood Plaza Partnership provides technical and financial assistance to organizations that maintain plazas in low-income communities.
