Queens

Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York provides care for nearly 2 million patients a year, and delivers medical care in more than 150 different languages. The international diversity of patients there makes the hospital a medical melting pot.

Members of Indian Sikh communities from around New York have organized to help those hardest-hit by Hurricane Sandy. Sikh volunteers are in Queens, providing hot food for displaced people in need of a meal.

M.A.K.U is a young band out of the thriving Colombian music scene across New York’s East River in Queens.

Natalie Jeremijenko is an environmental designer and a professor at New York University. She’s concerned about how the environment affects health and her transportation initiatives seek to address these problems.

A group of young farmers have begun a commercial farm seven stories up atop an office building in Queens, New York. They plan to sell a wide variety of veggies to local restaurants, building residents, and the surrounding community.