A counter white flight. Queens, New York

Parents pick up their sons up from school. Middle class families are breaking in the intensely diversified social pattern of Jackson Heights in a sort of “counter white flight”. Queens, New York City.

Silent Gentrification in the heart of Queens. Middle class families are breaking in the intensely diversified social pattern of Jackson Heights in a sort of “counter white flight”. Parents pick up their sons up from school. Queens, New York City.
Photo by Riccardo Budini / UnFrame

 

Señora Acero (Iron Lady), series aired by Telemundo TV. Spanish is the only language used in the majority of the borough’s signboards. For the newcomers, nothing remains but to adapt, until a likely consistent gentrification process will reverse linguistic habits. Corona, Queens, New York.

Señora Acero (Iron Lady), series aired by Telemundo TV. Spanish is the only language used in the majority of the borough’s signboards. For the newcomers, nothing remains but to adapt, until a likely consistent gentrification process will reverse linguistic habits. Corona, Queens, New York.
Photo by Riccardo Budini / UnFrame