You can go to Paris for beauty school, and the Philippines for lunch. You can find your dream Diwali dress and a 200lb Ganesh statue on one block, then put your feet up at one of the best Chinese food emporiums in the world. The glory of New York has always been its diversity, but nowhere is it as dizzyingly, colourfully concentrated as it is beneath the belly of the line 7 train in Queens, which locals have crowned “the International Express.” It’ll take you from Grand Central to just about anywhere in the world (in a matter of speaking); the enclaves of these rich cultures have stood their grounds since the early 1900s amidst a rapidly changing city. We hopped aboard the Express for ourselves, and whipped up a little itinerary of places you can’t miss…
