Crowded around, Nepali restaurants all around, from pan to tea shops. When seeing such a scene in America, any Nepali cannot claim that he is a foreigner. Jackson Heights in New York is not only a meeting place for Nepalese, but also a place where you can forget the alienation in America even if it is only for a few moments.

Manhattan, Queens and Times Square of New York State are also among the busiest and famous in the world. Among them, Jackson Height, which is in the borough of Queens City, has become the "Nepali's Junction" for the last decade. Due to the business firms, population and movement of immigrants that have grown around Jackson Heights during a decade, the number of Nepalis who use this area for traveling as well as living has increased.  Jackson Height has become a place for

meetings, meetings of organizations related to the Nepali community, tea parties, etc.

There are more than 20 Nepali restaurants around 3 to 4 kilometers from Jackson Heights. About the same number of boutiques, beauty parlors, clothing stores and other business firms run by Nepalis can be seen in Jackson Heights.

Due to more business firms, the movement of Nepalis in this area has increased and it is considered easy for meetings. Gokul Shrestha, Nepal government's tourism promoter for New York, said that when he comes to Jackson Heights, he remembers meeting his friends at a square in Nepal. 

'Jackson Height has really become Jackson for Nepalis. Generally, more than 1000 Nepalis gather here every day for one reason or another,' he said, 'from other states to visiting New York, even Nepalese from Nepal have made Jackson Height a meeting point. That's why it has become like a Jackson.

tourism promoter Shrestha recalled that there are more than 20 Nepali restaurants in one place, with Nepalese food and Nepali culture and traditions, and he also claimed that Jackson Height is probably the only city in America where Nepalis are known to thousands of people. 

Nepalese people who come for sightseeing feel that they are walking in a city of Nepal when they arrive at Jackson Heights. Not only that, because of the Nepali business firms here, which reflects the tradition along with the nationality of Nepal, this area has also become a means of introducing Nepal," he said.

Jackson Height is not only a meeting place but also a place of residence for hundreds of Nepalis. Jaskumar Rai, a local resident, has been living in Jackson Heights for decades because he feels that he belongs and lives in Nepal, even though the stay is not easy and accessible. He is of the opinion that he has been living in Jackson Heights for a decade and feels that he has settled in Nepal because of the crowded environment and food around here, but he does not want to move to another place even though it is not an easy and comfortable daily life.

'Within a distance of 3-4 kilometers, there are hundreds of Nepalis here. When we want to meet, 10-12 people gather immediately," he said. "There is a temple near here, a monastery is a little further away. It feels like we are in a small town in Nepal.'

The number of people walking on the streets is very low. However, there are thousands of people walking around Jackson Heights and the surrounding cities 24 hours a day. This is a rare sight in America. Diwakar Bahadur Chand, who is also a Nepali journalist, says that Jackson Height is not only a meeting place for Nepalis, but it can be considered as a 'haven' for Asians.

He also informed that hundreds of people from Indian, Bengali and Asian countries will be found in this area along with Nepalese and they will live around this area. "Looking at the shops and people in this area, which has become a place to express our feelings, it seems that we are not in America," he said. 

According to a statistic, about 60 percent of Jackson Heights residents are immigrants. Among them, there are more residents of Asia and South American countries. 26.5 percent of them are people from Asianmul. There are many Nepalis, Indians and Bengalis. In the 1960s, the number of immigrants in the area increased after the Raithanes began to migrate to the surrounding cities and New Jersey, according to a report in The New York Times.