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Thanks for the info on the Greek community in Ast. 50%, if you take out the public housing complex, was a vast maj. back then.
As to JH, I don't think that it's all Mex. or from Corona. There are all kinds of Central and South Americans. For many years there was a dam on Roosevelt Ave at Junction and at 51ST. In the late 70's it moved west to 74St. By the 80's the pressure became too great and the Woodside- JH area was inundated from both east and west. I was born and raised in the Newtown section of Elmhurst, then spent 30 yrs. in Woodside between Queens Blvd and Roosevelt. As a college student I delivered mail in Elm. & JH on my vacations. What's happened to that area is a sin.

You'd be surprised at how many folks just out of college get their first NY apartment in Sunnyside and Woodside. Most of those two neighborhoods are still OK, especially since they built the new extension of MOMA. There is, believe it or not, a growing restaurant scene along Queens Boulevard radiating out from the museum.

Along Roosevelt you used to have a large middle-class Colombian community, but they too have moved to suburbia. These days, J-Heights is largely Mexican (especially towards Corona), with Ecuadorans in the western portion, with a few other nationalities in between. The Indians who used to live around 74th street have moved to Lawn Guyland (Hicksville especially) and they have been replaced by Bangladeshis.

My ex-girlfriend was born in Peru, settled on Northen Boulevard in J-Heights when she was 12 and moved to Elmhurst a year later. I know the area very well. Last I heard, she married a Chinese guy and they live in Flushing.