KANNADA KOOTA NEW YORK INC., is a non profitable charitable organization established to promote the language, art, heritage and culture of people from Karnataka State in India.
Established in the year 1974, the organization is promoting the Kannada language, its heritage and work for the growth especially in the Tri State areas of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The LBJ bill for Immigration Reform, following JF Kennedy paved the way for immigrants from all over the world in the mid sixties. Kannadigas were did not fall behind of the new opportunities and started to migrate. New York was their first choice and when they arrived started to settle down in communities of Lefrak City, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Flushing, Woodside, Jamaica, Forest Hills among other places within Queens.