Michael Maly is able to show how Jackson Heights transformed from a once upper middle class community to the hyper-diverse neighborhood it is today. He does this by making a clear timeline of events that occurred in Queens. In the very beginning of the twentieth century, Queens was nothing more than rural land made up of individual townships. Ten years later, Jackson Heights was bought by Edward MacDougall’s Queensboro Corporation. When MacDougall began to develop Queens, he imagined an exclusive community of young, educated Protestants living in an area of “calm tree-lined streets” while “sharing a common garden.” The construction of the Queensboro Bridge as well as the E, F and 7 trains provided a link between Queens and Manhattan. These new modes of transportation as well as the Hart-Cellar Immigration Act of 1965, which decreased restricted immigration, attracted a “massive influx” of immigrants from Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean. Initially a diverse community was formed but “white flight,” the move of white settlers to escape immigrants, followed soon after. The steep drop of white settlers in the area actually proved to be beneficial to immigrants in more ways than one. First, the value of real estate significantly declined. This made it possible for new immigrants to afford housing that they would have been unable to afford if the area remained exclusive to the upper middle-class. In addition, residents were able to open up new businesses and institutions in the area that catered to the likings of new immigrants such as Indian grocery stores, sari shops and temples. Queens went from rural land to an exclusive community of white Protestants into a safe haven for immigrants. Today we see Queens as a hyper-diverse community that many South Asians have found a home in.