All Aboard The Seven Line
Many Cultures Join At Juntion Blvd.
By Gloria Sanders

Our next stop on the No. 7 train brings us to Junction Boulevard, the continuation of Corona Plaza. Built under the train tracks on Roosevelt Avenue it is a premier shopping center that offers a variety of products at discounted prices. The streets are overflowing with hundreds of people everyday. The pushcart in front of the subway entrance that sells quesadillas, tacos and other numerous Hispanic foods, said he’s always busy, especially on Sundays when the entire sidewalk is bombarded with people. Not much different than our previous stop, Junction is home to mainly Colombian, Mexican, Puerto Rican and Dominican immigrants. The people come together to form a thriving community with various eateries of different ethnic descent, clothing stores that carry imported apparel from Colombia, and private businesses with Spanish displays. In the summer, there is a Junction boulevard festival that takes up one block and has more than one-hundred vendors sponsored by the Junction Boulevard Merchants Association. Roosevelt Avenue is the Main Street of Corona and is primarily surrounded by private houses and buildings, making it convenient for the average person to live.