Jackson Heights and Richmond Hill in Queens, plus Hicksville and Floral Park on Long Island, anchor New York’s Hindi-speaking population.

Spoken Hindi and Urdu are largely mutually intelligible in everyday registers, but they diverge sharply in formal and legal vocabulary — Hindi drawing on Sanskrit, Urdu on Persian and Arabic — and they use entirely different scripts (Devanagari and Perso-Arabic). For document translation the distinction is absolute.

Many Hindi speakers in New York also speak Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali or another regional language at home, with Hindi as a second language. Under oath, the strongest language is the one that matters.

Common contexts

TLC and for-hire vehicle claims, small business and commercial disputes, workers’ compensation, depositions, and medical appointments.

Coverage and availability

  • In person: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, and Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk). We also take in-person assignments in New Jersey and Connecticut
  • Remote: phone or video interpreting, available nationwide
  • Short notice: accepted
  • Hours: 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week

Why firms keep calling us

  • 25+ years interpreting in New York legal and medical settings
  • NAJIT member — National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators
  • 5.0 stars on Google across 17 reviews
  • Trusted by attorneys, carriers, SIU teams, and healthcare providers

Book an interpreter

Call (718) 496-9129 or email inquiries@interpret.agency — available 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week. Most bookings take under two minutes.

Related services

Other languages we interpret

Spanish · Mandarin · Cantonese · French · Korean · Arabic · Portuguese · Russian · Haitian Creole · Polish · Ukrainian · Albanian · Punjabi · Wolof · Uzbek · Croatian · Soninke