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We are Professor Hum’s Macaulay Seminar 2: The Peopling of New York. Our semester-long project has been a neighborhood study focusing on  Roosevelt Avenue and surrounding neighborhood areas and the proposed Jackson Heights-Corona Business Improvement District. This website is a compilation of our findings over the Spring 2013 semester including the area’s history, demography, economics, and culture. Our overarching question has been “Roosevelt Avenue: Contested Terrain, Neighborhood Center, or Border?” Through the lens of this question, we have collected data via archives, census data, field work, and interviews. We hope you enjoy it!