Few communities are more culturally rich than the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights,which boasts some 167 spoken languages, a strong LGBT presence, and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Frederick Wiseman,the 85-year-customary director of observational documentaries (whose narratives are never forced with on-camera interviews, but merely suggested through motifs and editing), or turned his camera on Jackson Heights for approximately nine weeks,during the summer of 2014, to capture the neighborhood’s diversity and the looming threat of gentrification.
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