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Flushing, Queens State New York City New York City The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, motif of the 1964 New York World's Fair. Flushing is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. While much of the neighborhood is residentiary, Downtown Flushing, centered on the northern end of Main Street in Queens, is a large commercial and retail region and is the fourth biggest central company precinct in New York City. Flushing is served by five barns stations on the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch, as well as the New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line (7 <7> trains), which has its end at Main Street. The intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue is the third busiest intersection in New York City, behind Times and Herald Squares. The neighborhood of Flushing is part of Queens Community Board 7 and the broader precinct of Flushing in Queens County. The Flushing "neighborhood" is bounded by Flushing Meadows Corona Park to the west, Kissena Boulevard to the east, the Long Island Expressway to the south, and Willets Point Boulevard to the north. On October 10, 1645, Flushing was established by the Dutch on the easterly bank of Flushing Creek under charter of the Dutch West India Company and was part of the New Netherland colony. On December 27, 1657, the inhabitants of Flushing allowed a protest known as The Flushing Remonstrance. Eventually he persuaded the Dutch West India Company to allow Quakers and the rest to worship freely. As such, Flushing is claimed to be a place of birth of theological freedom in the New World. Landmarks remaining from the Dutch reconstructionin Flushing include the John Bowne House on Bowne Street and the Old Quaker Meeting House on Northern Boulevard. In 1664, the English took control of New Amsterdam, ending Dutch control of the colony, and retitled it the Province of New York. When Queens County was established in 1683, the "Town of Flushing" was one of the initial five suburbs which comprised the county. Many historical references to Flushing are to this town, bounded from Newtown on the west by Flushing Creek (now Flushing River), from Jamaica on the south by the watershed, and from Hempstead on the east by what later became the Nassau County line. The town was dissolved in 1898 when Queens became a borough of New York City, and the term "Flushing" today usually refers to a much lesser area, for example the former Village of Flushing. During the American Revolution, Flushing, along with most settlements in present-day Queens County, favored the British and quartered British troops, though one battalion of Scottish Highlanders is known to have been stationed at Flushing amid the war. During the 19th century, as New York City continued to expanded in populace and economic vitality, so did Flushing. Flushing's expansion continued with two new villages incorporating: College Point in 1867, and Whitestone in 1868. In 1898, although opposed to the proposal, the Town of Flushing (along with two other suburbs of Queens County) was merged into the City of New York to form the new Borough of Queens. Local farmland continued to be subdivided and advanced transforming Flushing into a densely populated neighborhood of New York City. The continued assembly of bridges over the Flushing River and the evolution of other roads increased the volume of vehicular traffic into Flushing. The introduction of rail road service to Manhattan in 1910 by the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch and in 1928 by the New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line (7 <7> trains) hastened the continued transformation of Flushing to a commuter suburb and commercial center. In the 1970s, a Chinese improve established a foothold in the neighborhood of Flushing, whose demographic constituency had been dominantly non-Hispanic white, interspersed with a small Japanese community. Along with immigrants from Taiwan at this time, a large South Korean populace also called Flushing home. Bank of China on Main Street in Flushing, Queens New York Before the 1970s, Cantonese immigrants had vastly dominated Chinese immigration to New York City; however amid the 1970s, the Taiwanese immigrants were the first wave of Chinese immigrants who spoke Mandarin clean water Cantonese to arrive in New York City. Due to the dominance of Cantonese-speaking immigrants, who were largely working-class in Manhattan's Chinatown, as well as the language barrier and poor housing conditions there, Taiwanese immigrants, who were more likely to have attained higher educational standards and socioeconomic status, could not relate to Manhattan's Chinatown, and chose to settle in Flushing instead. As the Taiwanese populace grew, a Flushing Chinatown was created with a higher standard of living and better housing conditions. The intersection of Kissena Boulevard and Main Street in Flushing. Over the years, many new non-Cantonese ethnic Chinese immigrants from different regions and provinces of China started to arrive in New York City. Like the Taiwanese, they faced cultural and communication enigma in Manhattan's Cantonese-speaking Chinatown and settled in Flushing as well as Elmhurst, Queens, which also has a momentous Mandarin-speaking population. Flushing's Chinese populace became very diverse over the next several decades as citizens from different provinces started to arrive, infusing their varied languages and cultures into its Chinatown. Flushing and its Chinatown abuts the quickly growing Long Island Koreatown as well. Koreatown originated in Flushing before widespread eastward along Northern Boulevard and eventually into Nassau County. This Koreatown abuts the quickly growing Flushing Chinatown as well. See also: Chinatowns in Queens Flushing Flushing Chinatown ( ), or Mandarin Town ( ) is one of the biggest and quickest burgeoning ethnic Chinese enclaves outside of Asia, as well as inside New York City itself. Main Street and the region to its west, especially along Roosevelt Avenue, have turn into the major hub of Flushing's Chinatown. In the 1970s, a Chinese improve established a foothold in the neighborhood of Flushing, whose demographic constituency had been dominantly non-Hispanic white. By 1990, Asians constituted 41% of the populace of the core region of Flushing, with Chinese in turn representing 41% of the Asian population. However, ethnic Chinese are constituting an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian populace as well as of the overall populace in Flushing and its Chinatown. A 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association approximated 60,000 Chinese in Flushing alone. Street vendor selling fruit under the Flushing Main Street LIRR station The intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue, the market seat for Flushing, on the westernmost edge of the neighborhood, has a large concentration of Chinese and Korean businesses, including Asian restaurants. Ethnic Chinese constitute an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian populace and as well as of the overall populace in Flushing. Consequently, Flushing's Chinatown has grown quickly enough to turn into the second-largest Chinatown outside of Asia. In fact, the Flushing Chinatown may surpass the initial Manhattan Chinatown itself inside a several years. A 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association approximated 60,000 Chinese in Flushing alone. By 1990, Asians constituted 41% of the populace of the core region of Flushing, with Chinese in turn representing 41% of the Asian population. However, ethnic Chinese are constituting an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian populace as well as of the overall populace in Flushing and its Chinatown. High rates of both legal and illegal immigration from Mainland China continue to spur the ongoing rise of the ethnic Chinese populace in Flushing, as in all of New York City's Chinatowns. According to a Daily News article, Flushing's Chinatown rates as New York City's second biggest Chinese improve with 33,526 Chinese, up from 17,363, a 93% increase. The World Journal, one of the biggest Chinese-language newspapers outside of China, is headquartered in adjoining Whitestone ( ), Queens, with offices in Flushing as well. Flushing now rivals Manhattan's Chinatown as a center of Chinese culture and has been called the "Chinese Manhattan". The Lunar New Year Parade has turn into a burgeoning annual celebration of Chinese New Year. More and larger Chinese supermarkets are locating and selling a diverse and uniquely vast array of Chinese food and ingredient selections in Flushing, the biggest of which include Hong Kong Supermarket and New York Supermarket, which also happen to be quickly growing Chinese American chain supermarkets. Flushing's rise as an epicenter of Chinese culture outside of Asia has been attributed to the remarkable range of county-wide Chinese demographics represented. The World Journal, one of the biggest Chinese-language newspapers outside of China, is headquartered in adjoining Whitestone ( ), Queens, with offices in Flushing as well. Numerous other Chinese- and English-language publications are available in Flushing. Given its quickly growing status, the Flushing Chinatown may surpass in size and populace the initial New York City Chinatown in the borough of Manhattan inside a several years, and it is debatable whether this has already happened. The New York Times says that Flushing's Chinatown now rivals Manhattan's Chinatown for being the center of Chinese-speaking New Yorkers' politics and trade. The Elmhurst Chinatown on Broadway in close-by Elmhurst, another neighborhood in the borough of Queens, also has a large and quickly growing Chinese improve and is developing as a satellite of the Flushing Chinatown. Previously a small region with Chinese shops on Broadway between 81st Street and Cornish Avenue, this newly evolved second Chinatown in Queens has now period to 45th Avenue and Whitney Avenue. A third and fledgling Chinatown is now emerging in Queens, geographically between Flushing and Elmhurst, in the neighborhood of Corona. There is a Koreatown which originated in Flushing, but has since spread eastward to Murray Hill, Bayside, Douglaston, and Little Neck in Queens, and also into Nassau County. As of the 2010 United States Census, the Korean populace of Queens was 64,107. In the 1980s, a continuous stream of Korean immigrants emerged into Flushing, many of whom began as workers in the medical field or Korean global students who had moved to New York City to find or initiate experienced or entrepreneurial positions. They established a foothold on Union Street in Flushing between 35th and 41st Avenues, featuring restaurants and karaoke (noraebang) bars, grocery markets, education centers and bookstores, banking establishments, offices, consumer electronics vendors, apparel boutiques, and other commercial enterprises. As the improve grew in richness and populace and rose in socioeconomic status, Koreans period their existence eastward along Northern Boulevard, buying homes in more well-to-do and less crowded Queens neighborhoods and more recently into adjoining suburban Nassau County, bringing their businesses with them, and thereby expanding the Koreatown itself. This expansion has led to the creation of an American Meokjagolmok, or Korean Restaurant Street, around the Long Island Rail Road station in Murray Hill, Queens, exuding the ambience of Seoul itself. The eastward pressure to grew was also created by the inability to move westward, inhibited by the formidable existence of the enormous Flushing Chinatown ( ) centered on Main Street. Per the 2010 United States Census, the Korean populace of Queens was 64,107, representing the biggest municipality in the United States with a density of at least 500 Korean Americans per square mile; while the Korean populace of Nassau County had increased by nearly two-thirds to approximately 14,000 over one decade since the 2000 Census. Along with the two Koreatowns of Bergen County, New Jersey (in Palisades Park and Fort Lee) and the Manhattan Koreatown in New York City, the Long Island Koreatown functions as a satellite node for an overall Korean American populace of 218,764 individuals in the New York City Metropolitan Area, the second biggest population of ethnic Koreans outside of Korea. See also: Indians in the New York City urbane region The neighborhood of East Flushing, technically inside Greater Flushing, also homes a substantial Chinese improve along with most of Downtown Flushing. This neighborhood tends to be more diverse visibly than Downtown Flushing because of the more even distribution of the ethnicities of East Flushing inhabitants resulting in more businesses catering to each improve rather than the dominance of Chinese and to a lesser extent Korean businesses in Downtown Flushing. Recently much of the region was rezoned by the City of New York to preserve the low density, residentiary character of the area. The neighborhood awaits designation as an Historic District by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Linden Hill is part of Flushing and is served by the NYPD's 109th Precinct and Queens Community Board 7. The Asian-American populace has period noteably in the southern part of Linden Hill in the past decade (as it has in Flushing proper) and the Latino-American populace has also grown noticeably. Murray Hill inside Flushing is often confused with the larger Murray Hill neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan. Queensboro Hill in southern Flushing is bordered to the West by College Point Boulevard, to the North by Kissena Park and Kissena Corridor Park, to the South by Reeves Avenue and the Long Island Expressway, and to the East by Kissena Boulevard. Queensboro Hill is a part of ZIP codes 11355 and 11367 and contains a New York Hospital Queens branch. Waldheim, German for "home in the woods", known for its large homes of varying architectural styles, laid out in an unusual street pattern, was the home of some of Flushing's wealthiest inhabitants until the 1960s. The neighborhood was rezoned by the City of New York in 2008, in order to halt the destruction of its initial housing stock, which began in the late 1980s, and to help preserve the low density, residentiary character of the neighborhood. Today, Flushing abounds with homes of worship, ranging from the Dutch colonial epoch Quaker Meeting House, the historic Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Queens, St. Scott Hanson, a visiting assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton and an partner of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University." In 1657, while Flushing was still a Dutch settlement, a document known as the Flushing Remonstrance was created by Edward Hart, the town clerk, where some thirty ordinary people protested a ban imposed by Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of New Amsterdam, forbidding the harboring of Quakers. Flushing Town Hall on Northern Boulevard is the command posts of the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, an partner of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The building homes a concert hall and cultural center and is one of the sites designated along the Queens Historical Society's Freedom Mile. Other registered New York City Landmarks include the Bowne House, Kingsland Homestead, Old Quaker Meeting House (1694), Flushing High School, St. Latimer House, the former RKO Keith's movie theater, the United States Post Office on Main Street, and the Unisphere, the iconic 12-story-high stainless steel globe that served as the centerpiece for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Presently, the Queens North Task Force of the New York City Police Department uses this building. In 2005, the Fitzgerald-Ginsberg Mansion on Bayside Avenue and in 2007, the Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden were designated as landmarks. Also in the park are the Queens Museum of Art which features a scale model of the City of New York, the biggest architectural model ever built; Queens Theatre in the Park; the New York Hall of Science and the Queens Zoo. The New York State Pavilion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The Queens Botanical Garden on Main Street has been in operation continuously since its opening as an exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Citi Field, home of Major League Baseball's New York Mets All the enhance parks and playgrounds in Flushing are supervised by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Flushing Meadows Corona Park, a 1,255-acre (5.08 km2) park, is considered a flagship park in Queens. Also positioned here is Citi Field, home of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center which is the home of the US Tennis Open. Queens Botanical Garden is a 39-acre (0.16 km2) garden comprising the upper portion of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Kissena Corridor Park is a 100.873-acre (0.40822 km2) park which joins two separate corridors, adjoining Flushing Meadows-Corona Park to Kissena Park. Bowne Park is an 11-acre (45,000 m2) park advanced on the former estate of New York City Mayor Walter Bowne. Flushing Fields is a 10-acre (40,000 m2) greenbelt that includes the home athletic field of Flushing High School. Public schools in Flushing are supervised by the New York City Department of Education through Administrative District 25. There are various enhance Elementary and Junior High Schools in Flushing and students generally attend a school based on the locale of their residence. Flushing High School, the earliest enhance high school in the City of New York. 237, an arts-oriented magnet school also known as Rachel Carson Intermediate School 237, is also positioned in Flushing, at 46-21 Colden Street. Since 2006 the school made room for a new school to use the space up on the 4th floor for the East-West School of International Studies. It opened in September 2006 with 6th through 12th undertaking classes. Operated by the New York City Department of Education, it is led by principal Ben Sherman, has an average class size of 25 students, and has a student-teacher ratio of 14.9:1 in 2006-07, As it shares space with I.S. On December 22, 1980, The Japanese School of New York moved from Jamaica Estates, Queens into Fresh Meadows, Queens, near Flushing. In 1991, the school moved to Yonkers in Westchester County, New York, before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1992. Queens College, established in 1937, is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), and is generally misconstrued to be inside Flushing neighborhood limits due to its Flushing mailing address. The City University of New York School of Law was established in 1983 adjoining to the Queens College campus, and was positioned at 65-21 Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills until 2012. It moved to Long Island City for the Fall 2012 Semester. Branch of the Queens Library in Flushing. Entrance to the Flushing Main Street end station of the IRT Flushing Line (7 <7> trains) is one of the busiest stations in the New York City Subway system. In 1858, the first library in Queens County was established in Flushing. Today, there are eight chapters of the Queens Borough Public Library with Flushing addresses. The biggest of the Flushing chapters is positioned at the intersection of Kissena Boulevard and Main Street in Flushing's Chinatown and is the busiest branch of the highest circulation fitness in the country. This library has and homes an auditorium for enhance affairs. New York Hospital Queens (formerly known as Booth Memorial Hospital), a member of the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, is a primary medical center providing Flushing as well as encircling communities with elected medical care services. Numerous tertiary medical clinics also serve the inhabitants of Flushing. The New York City Subway operates the IRT Flushing Line (7 <7> trains). The Flushing Main Street station, positioned at the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue, is presently the easterly end of the line. Until the Flushing line made its way to the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in 1928, the center of Flushing was considered to be at the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Main Street. Northern Boulevard extends from the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City through Flushing into Nassau County. There are also many buses run by Metropolitan Transportation Authority partner New York City Bus (routes Q12, Q13, Q15, Q15 - A, Q16, Q17, Q20 - A, Q20 - B, Q26, Q27, Q28, Q44 SBS, Q48, Q58) and subsidiary MTA Bus Company (routes Q19, Q25, Q34, Q50, Q65, Q66). The political create of Flushing appears to be increasing decidedly , with many Chinese from Flushing becoming New York City Council members. Taiwan-born John Liu, former New York City Council member representing District 20, which includes Flushing and other northern Queens neighborhoods, was propel to his current position of New York City Comptroller in November 2009. The modern band KISS first played at the Coventry Club on Queens Boulevard in 1973, and is said to have derived its name from "Kissena," one of Flushing's primary boulevards. The chief characters of The Black Stallion series resided in Flushing and many of Flushing's streets and landmarks in the 1940s were mentioned in the first book. 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"1967:Born in Flushing, New York, to real estate developer Maury Apatow and Tami Shad, who divorced when he was 12." Daniel Carter Beard Mall, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. "Love Me, Love My Apartment", The New York Times, February 10, 2008. He was an owner of the home in Flushing, Queens, that he interval up in, and had converted the attic into a music studio." "James Bland was born on October 22, 1854, in Flushing, Long Island, New York, to Allen M. "Action Bronson's Guide to New York City Dining", GQ, September 23, 2011. "Godfrey macarthur Cambridge, born to British Guiana parents, who emigrated first to Sydney, Nova Scotia, and then came to New York, interval up in Flushing, Long Island." The New York Times. But they meant the world to this intensely shy artist, who lived on sweets, worshiped forgotten divas and made portable shrines to them his version of spiritual art in the basement of the small home he shared with his mother and disabled brother in Flushing, Queens. "In a phone interview with the actress best known for her small-screen part as comical character Fran Fine from the 1990's CBS series The Nanny, the former Queens girl talked about burgeoning up in Flushing and how some chapters of her life inspired two prosperous sitcoms." Chen, David W ."Champion of Gay Rights to Leave New York State Senate", The New York Times, June 3, 2012. Duane, a native New Yorker who interval up in Flushing, Queens, first joined the family company as a Wall Street stockbroker." "Film Brute Who Cries Still Lives In Queens; Mailbox Overflows After Recent Roles", The New York Times, June 19, 2003. Was lounging at a park in Flushing, Queens, where he has lived since he was 17." GIBSON DEAD AT AGE OF 77; Famed Illustrator, Creator of 'Gibson Girl,' Succumbs to Heart Ailment in Home LAUNCHED VOGUE OF '90'S Noted for His Lighter Works, He Also Gained Recognition for His Paintings in Oils", The New York Times', December 24, 1944. Born and raised in Flushing, Queens, he different humor with an edgy, irreverent style and spent more than 40 years behind the microphone beginning at WNHC/New Haven, CT." "Robert Moog, Creator of Music Synthesizer, Dies at 71", The New York Times, August 23, 2005. Moog was born in New York City on May 23, 1934, and although he studied the piano while he was burgeoning up in Flushing, Queens, his real interest was physics." "Lewis Mumford, a Visionary Social Critic, Dies at 94", The New York Times, January 28, 1990. "The illegitimate son of a businessman, and raised by his mother, who was homekeeper in the home of a relative, Lewis Mumford was born in Flushing, Queens, on Oct. "New Yorker to Be Music Director of Phoenix Symphony", The New York Times, February 21, 2014. "The Phoenix Symphony's new music director is a native New Yorker who goes west by way of France: Tito Munoz, who has led French orchestras in Lorraine and Nancy.... " Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, a Flushing native, dies at 94 - The influential women called Queens home until she was two", Queens Chronicle, March 6, 2016. "Born in Flushing, New York, Richard J. The New York Times. 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