Jackson Heights

United States

Jackson Heights, a Queens neighborhood, holds 99 Bunkabop connections across 6046 places and 19 topics, spanning music, film, government, and sports. Its strongest overlaps run with Queens and New York City, but threads extend to Los Angeles and London. A band named after the neighborhood formed when Lee Jackson of The Nice parted from Keith Emerson and had recorded four albums by 1973. Richard Grasso was raised here. The neighborhood's Roosevelt Avenue corridor surfaces in several connections tied to political and civil rights history.