Dan Fleshler, a Jewish resident of Jackson Heights, proudly identifies with his Queens neighborhood, one that is by manymeasures the nation’s most diverse. But he also recognizes the limitations of his day-to-day life.
“I really don’t have a whole lot of contact with my Muslim neighbors,” Fleshler said. He added that, outside of a monthly open-mic night he takes part in at local coffee shop Espresso 77, “it’s incidental contact.”
Fleshler, as a partial remedy, said he plans to attend a Jewish-Muslim gathering on Sunday that, in the multicultural spirit of Jackson Heights, is taking place in the garden of St. Marks, an Episcopal church…