Mon–Thu 8:30am–4:30pm · Fri to 2pm 3958 64Th St, Woodside, NY 11377 Call the desk (646) 265-9441

About the studio · Woodside, NY

We read every line as if a patient were reading it aloud.

Plover Avenue is a small translation desk in Woodside, Queens, with a long table, a shelf of dictionaries gone soft at the corners, and a kettle that is rarely cold. We carry consent forms, device instructions and trial questionnaires from English into more than twenty languages, and we do not let a page leave until three people have disagreed about it and settled.

A translator's desk with annotated consent forms, a brass ruler and a steaming mug in copper light
The long table on 64th Street, mid-afternoon: proofs, pencils and a second pair of eyes.
02Why the studio exists

A plain promise of care

Built for the person at the kitchen table.

Most of what we translate is read once, slowly, by someone who is frightened or tired or both: a parent weighing a trial for a child, a patient holding a new device that beeps in a way nobody warned them about. The page has to be steady in their hands. A dose cannot waver. A “may” cannot harden into a “will.”

So the studio is arranged around friction in the right places. The translator drafts and reads aloud. A certified linguist, a different person, goes through the draft against your source with a pencil. Then a third linguist, who has never seen your English, turns it back, and we lay the two side by side and listen for where they part.

We are small on purpose. When you call, the person who picks up has the file open, knows which linguist has it, and can tell you what day it will return.

03How we hold ourselves

Three habits of the desk

Small rules, kept at every page.

  1. Read it aloud

    Every translation is spoken at least once before review. Awkward rhythm shows up in the mouth long before it shows up on the screen, and a patient hears the words in their own head the same way.

  2. Keep a paper trail of choices

    When a term could go two ways, we pick one, write down why, and send you the note. Your regulatory lead, your ethics committee and the next translator all see the same reasoning.

  3. Say so when the date is wrong

    If the window you need cannot be met with three linguists reading honestly, we tell you on the first call, with the calendar that can be met, rather than thinning out the review to look fast.

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04The desk, in particulars

What you will find on 64th Street.

Languages we work in
Twenty-plus, from Español and Português (BR and PT) to العربية, 日本語 and Kreyòl ayisyen. Others on request.
What crosses the table
Consent forms, patient leaflets, instructions for use, PRO and ePRO questionnaires, with files returned in your layout.
How we are paid
Per language, per project, by invoice, after you have the files and the certificate of translation.
Who answers the phone
Someone at the desk, Monday to Thursday 8:30am–4:30pm, Friday until 2pm.
05Come by, or call

Phone first

Tell us the page, the languages and the date.

(646) 265-9441
Mon–Thu8:30am–4:30pm
Fridayto 2pm
Sat–SunClosed
3958 64Th St
Woodside, NY 11377
Walk to us from the 61st St station
Mon–Thu 8:30am–4:30pm
Fri to 2pm
Call (646) 265-9441