Queens Library is a portal for immigrants
June 22, 2008 | 11:06
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The Ellis Island immigration center was shut down decades ago. But there's a new stop in New York for immigrants yearning to assimilate to their adopted home.
The Queens Library branch in Flushing, N.Y., sits at the intersection of five avenues amid an array of Afghan, Indian, Korean and Vietnamese businesses in this busy borough downtown.
It's an appropriate spot for a library whose clientele is overwhelmingly made up of immigrants from Asia and whose purpose is the intersection of conventional book and information services and help for the newly arrived, writes the L.A. Times' Louise Roug.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City
