On Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, passing from one block to the next can feel like crossing continents
. And yet only for a very short while did walking Roosevelt and its surrounding streets have the same eerie, empty feel as in the rest of the city. Its communities and micro-economies, heavily reliant on in-person interactions, cannot afford to stay still.
And you certainly feel it when you step into the United Sherpa Association, a former Lutheran Church that in 1996 was converted into a Tibetan Buddhist temple and community center now serving more than 12,000 Himalayan Sherpas, the largest population living outside Nepal. People come here to pray and to drink salty yak-butter tea poured from tall thermoses into bowls of blue-and-white china.
Climbing is often a perilous endeavor for the Sherpa, especially with little in the way of formalized protections from the turbulent Nepalese government. “Going to the mountains, it’s like going to war,” Ang Tshering says. “You don’t know if you’ll come back.” Many hundreds of Sherpa people have died or been seriously disabled on climbs over the years. “Once a Sherpa gets in a kind of accident, the family gets very little, they don’t have a safety net,” Ang Tshering adds.
Steve Lucero, 13, practices a flying kick in an advanced karate class at the Ballet Factory along Roosevelt Avenue.Down the road, the sound of spoken Spanish envelops either side of what’s known as ‘’ —where vendors slice cold coconuts with machetes, and tall stalks of sugarcane disappear into juicers for the sweet drink called.
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