Populated by mostly Jewish and Italian families during 1960s, in recent decades, Elmhurst has become home-base to a large Asian and Latin immigrant community. Now a prospering working- middle-class neighborhood, apartments, co-ops and multi-family homes adorn the quite streets of the most ethnically diverse zip-code in New York City. Subway lines facilitate access the rest of Queens, or the half hour trip into Midtown Manhattan. Locals frequent the area’s small businesses, or may venture out to the ever-popular Queen’s Center Mall. If shopping is not your diversion of choice, you can enjoy the impressive architecture of places of worship, including colonial era- Christian churches and Thai Buddhist Temples.