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Flushing, Queens

January 12, 2023

Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City.[3][4] Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area, and the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue at its core is the third-busiest in New York City, behind Times Square and Herald Square.[5]

Flushing
Neighborhood of Queens
Aerial view of the neighborhood
Location within New York City
Coordinates: 40°45′54″N 73°48′18″W / 40.765°N 73.805°W / 40.765; -73.805Coordinates: 40°45′54″N 73°48′18″W / 40.765°N 73.805°W / 40.765; -73.805
Country United States
State New York
City New York City
County/Borough Queens
Community DistrictQueens 7[1]
Founded1645
Town1683–1898
Named forVlissingen, Netherlands
Population
 (2010)[2]
 • Total72,008 (176,000 with the subsections)
Race/Ethnicity
 • White9.5%
 • Black4.2%
 • Hispanic14.9%
 • Asian69.2%
 • Other/Multiracial2.2%
Economics
 • Median income$39,804
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes
11354, 11355, 11358
Area codes718, 347, 929, and 917

Flushing was established as a settlement of New Netherland on October 10, 1645, on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek. It was named Vlissingen, after the Dutch city of Vlissingen. The English took control of New Amsterdam in 1664, and when Queens County was established in 1683, the "Town of Flushing" was one of the original five towns of Queens. In 1898, Flushing was consolidated into the City of New York. Development came in the early 20th century with the construction of bridges and public transportation. An immigrant population, composed mostly of Chinese and Koreans, settled in Flushing in the late 20th century.

Flushing contains numerous residential subsections, and its diversity is reflected by the numerous ethnic groups that reside there. Flushing is served by several stations on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch, as well as the New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line (7 and <7>​ trains), which has its terminus at Main Street.

Flushing is located in Queens Community District 7, and its ZIP Codes are 11354, 11355, and 11358.[1] It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 109th Precinct.

History

 
Old Flushing Burial Ground, used in the 17th and 18th centuries, now a park

Precolonial and colonial history

Flushing was originally inhabited by the Matinecoc Indians prior to colonization and European settlement.[6]

Dutch colony

On October 10, 1645, Flushing was established on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek under charter of the Dutch West India Company and was part of the New Netherland colony that was governed from New Amsterdam (Lower Manhattan). The settlement was named Vlissingen, after the city of Vlissingen, which was the European base of the Dutch West India company. By 1657, the residents called the place "Vlishing." Eventually, the formal traditional English name for the Dutch town, "Flushing", would be settled upon (despite being a Dutch colony, many of the local early settlers were British, who trickled down from nearby Connecticut colony).[7]

Unlike all other towns in the region, the charter of Flushing allowed residents freedom of religion as practiced in Holland "without the disturbance of any magistrate or ecclesiastical minister." However, in 1656, New Amsterdam Director-General Peter Stuyvesant issued an edict prohibiting the harboring of Quakers. On December 27, 1657, the inhabitants of Flushing approved a protest known as The Flushing Remonstrance. This petition contained religious arguments even mentioning freedom for "Jews, Turks, and Egyptians," but ended with a forceful declaration that any infringement of the town charter would not be tolerated. Subsequently, a farmer named John Bowne held Quaker meetings in his home and was arrested for this and deported to Holland. Eventually he persuaded the Dutch West India Company to allow Quakers and others to worship freely.[8] As such, Flushing is claimed to be a birthplace of religious freedom in the New World.[9] Landmarks remaining from the Dutch period in Flushing include the John Bowne House on Bowne Street and the Old Quaker Meeting House on Northern Boulevard. The Remonstrance was signed at a house on the site of the former State Armory, now a police facility, on the south side Northern Boulevard between Linden Place and Union Street.

English colony

In 1664, the English took control of New Amsterdam, ending Dutch control of the New Netherland colony, and renamed it the Province of New York. When Queens County was established in 1683, the "Town of Flushing" was one of the original five towns which comprised the county.[10] 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 smaller area, for example the former Village of Flushing.

 
Ash Street, now called Ash Avenue, in the early 20th century

Flushing was a seat of power as the Province of New York up to the American Revolution was led by Governor Cadwallader Colden, based at his Spring Hill estate.[11][12]

Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America, the most prominent being the Prince, Bloodgood, and Parsons nurseries.[13] A 14-acre (5.7 ha) tract of Parsons's exotic specimens was preserved on the north side of Kissena Park.[14] The nurseries are also commemorated in the names of west–east avenues that intersect Kissena Boulevard; the streets are named after plants and ordered alphabetically from Ash Avenue in the north to Rose Avenue in the south.[15] Flushing also supplied trees to the Greensward Project, now known as Central Park in Manhattan.[16] Well into the 20th century, Flushing contained many horticultural establishments and greenhouses.

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 during the war. Following the Battle of Long Island, Nathan Hale, an officer in the Continental Army, was apprehended near Flushing Bay while on what was probably an intelligence gathering mission and was later hanged.

 
Flushing in 1882

The 1785 Kingsland Homestead, originally the residence of a wealthy Quaker merchant, now serves as the home of the Queens Historical Society.[17]

19th century

 
Map of Flushing in 1891

During the 19th century, as New York City continued to grow in population and economic vitality, so did Flushing. Its proximity to Manhattan was critical in its transformation into a fashionable residential area. On April 15, 1837, the Village of Flushing was incorporated within the Town of Flushing.[18][19][20] The official seal was merely the words, "Village of Flushing", surrounded by nondescript flowers. No other emblem or flag is known to have been used. The Village of Flushing included the neighbourhoods of Flushing Highlands, Bowne Park, Murray Hill, Ingleside, and Flushing Park.[20]

The Flushing and North Side Railroad opened its Port Washington Branch to Flushing in 1854, providing access to Hunters Point on the East River shore.[21] By the mid-1860s, Queens County had 30,429 residents. The Village of College Point was incorporated in 1867,[22] and the Village of Whitestone was incorporated in 1868. The first free public high school in what is now New York City was established in Flushing in 1875. Flushing, then a small village, established a library in 1858, the oldest in Queens County and only slightly younger than the library of the City of Brooklyn (built in 1852).

In 1898, although opposed to the proposal, the Town of Flushing (along with two other towns and other land of Queens County) was consolidated into the City of New York to form the new Borough of Queens. All towns, villages, and cities within the new borough were dissolved.

Local farmland continued to be subdivided and developed transforming Flushing into a densely populated neighborhood of New York City. A major factor in this was the Halleran real estate agency. From the American Civil War to the end of the 1930s its slogan “Ask Mr. Halleran!” could be seen in ads all over Long Island, and the phrase from its maps “So This Is Flushing” became a catchphrase.[23][24]

20th-century development

The continued construction of bridges over the Flushing River and the development of other roads increased the volume of vehicular traffic into Flushing. In 1909, the Queensboro Bridge over the East River opened, connecting Queens County to midtown Manhattan.[25] With the opening of Pennsylvania Station the next year, the Port Washington Branch, now part of the Long Island Rail Road, started running to midtown Manhattan.[26] Broadway, a main roadway through Flushing, was widened and renamed Northern Boulevard.[27] The Roosevelt Avenue Bridge over the Flushing River, which carries four lanes of traffic and the New York City Subway's elevated Flushing Line (7 and <7>​ trains), was the largest trunnion bascule bridge in the world when it was completed in 1927.[28][29] The next year, the Main Street terminal of the Flushing subway line opened in downtown Flushing, giving the neighborhood direct subway access.[30]

Flushing was a forerunner of Hollywood, when the young American film industry was still based on the U.S. East Coast and Chicago. Decades later, the RKO Keith's movie palace would host vaudeville acts and appearances by the likes of Mickey Rooney, the Marx Brothers and Bob Hope.

 
Main Street, 1920

Asian communities

In the 1970s, immigrants from Taiwan established a foothold in Flushing, whose demographic constituency had been predominantly non-Hispanic white, interspersed with a small Japanese community. Additionally, a large South Korean population also called Flushing home. The Taiwanese immigrants were the first wave of Chinese-speaking immigrants who spoke Mandarin (Taiwanese also spoken) rather than Cantonese to arrive in New York City. Many Taiwanese immigrants were additionally Hokkien and had relatives or connections to Fujian province in China, which led to large influxes of Fuzhounese Americans.[dubious – discuss]

Over the years, many new non-Cantonese ethnic Chinese immigrants from different regions and provinces of China started to arrive in New York City and settled in Flushing through word of mouth. This wave of immigrants spoke Mandarin and various regional/provincial dialects. The early 1990s and 2000s brought a wave of Fuzhounese Americans and Wenzhounese immigrants, who mostly spoke Mandarin, and who settled in Flushing as well as Elmhurst. Flushing's Chinese population became diverse over the next few decades as people from different provinces started to arrive.[31][32][33][34] Due to loosened emigration restrictions in mainland China, there has been a growing Northern Chinese population in Flushing. The regional food cuisines have led to Flushing being considered the "food mecca" for Chinese regional cuisine outside of Asia.[35][36]

21st-century transformation

Main article: Downtown Flushing

In the 21st century, Flushing has cemented its status as an international "melting pot", predominantly attracting immigrants from Asia, particularly from throughout the various provinces of China, but including newcomers from all over the world. Flushing Chinatown is centered around Main Street and the area to its west, most prominently along Roosevelt Avenue, which have become the primary nexus of Flushing Chinatown. However, Chinatown continues to expand southeastward along Kissena Boulevard and northward beyond Northern Boulevard. The Flushing Chinatown houses over 30,000 individuals born in China alone, the largest Chinatown by this metric outside Asia and one of the largest and fastest-growing Chinatowns in the world.[37] In January 2019, the New York Post named Flushing as New York City's "most dynamic outer-borough neighborhood."[38] Flushing is undergoing rapid gentrification by Chinese transnational entities.[39]

Streetscape

 
The busy intersection of Main Street, Kissena Boulevard, and 41st Avenue in the Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), Downtown Flushing, the third-busiest pedestrian intersection in New York City. The segment of Main Street between Kissena Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue, punctuated by the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch overpass, represents the cultural heart of Flushing Chinatown. Housing over 30,000 individuals born in China alone, the largest by this metric outside Asia, Flushing has become home to the largest and one of the fastest-growing Chinatowns in the world, known as the "Chinese Times Square" or the "Chinese Manhattan".[40][41][37]

Demographics

Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Flushing was 72,008, an increase of 2,646 (3.8%) from the 69,362 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 853.06 acres (345.22 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 84.4 inhabitants per acre (54,000/sq mi; 20,900/km2).[2]

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 9.5% (6,831) White, 4.2% (3,016) African American, 0.1% (74) Native American, 69.2% (49,830) Asian, 0.1% (59) Pacific Islander, 0.2% (172) from other races, and 1.8% (1,303) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 14.9% (10,723) of the population.[42]

The entirety of Community Board 7, which comprises Flushing, College Point, and Whitestone, had 263,039 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 84.3 years.[43]: 2, 20  This is longer than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[44]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [45] Most inhabitants are middle-aged and elderly: 22% are between the ages of between 25 and 44, 30% between 45 and 64, and 18% over 65. The ratio of youth and college-aged residents was lower, at 17% and 7%, respectively.[43]: 2 

As of 2017, the median household income in Community Board 7 was $51,284.[46] In 2018, an estimated 25% of Flushing and Whitestone residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City. One in seventeen residents (6%) were unemployed, compared to 8% in Queens and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 57% in Flushing and Whitestone, higher than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, Flushing and Whitestone are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.[43]: 7 

Cultural enclaves

Diverse Chinese communities

See also: Chinatowns in Queens § Flushing
Chinatown, Flushing
 
The intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue
Traditional Chinese法拉盛華埠
Simplified Chinese法拉盛华埠
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinFǎlāshèng Huá Bù
Gwoyeu RomatzyhFaalashenq Hwabuh
Wade–GilesFa3la1sheng4 Hua2 Pu4
Tongyong PinyinFǎlāshèng Húa Bú
IPA[fàláʂə̂ŋ xwǎ pʰû]
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingFaat3laa1sing4 Waa4 Bou6
IPA[fāːtláːsȉŋ wȁːpòu]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJNiú-iok Hôa-bú

Flushing Chinatown, or Mandarin Town[47] is the world's largest and one of the fastest-growing Chinatowns, known as the "Chinese Times Square" or the "Chinese Manhattan".[40][41] In Mandarin, Flushing is known as "Falasheng" (Chinese: 法拉盛; pinyin: Fǎlāshèng).[48] The Chinatown of Flushing is centered around the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue, and many of the area's Chinese businesses are located on the blocks around, or west of, Main Street.[37] However, Chinatown continues to expand southeastward along Kissena Boulevard and northward beyond Northern Boulevard.

In the 1970s, a Chinese community established a foothold in the neighborhood of Flushing, whose demographic constituency had been predominantly non-Hispanic white. Taiwanese began the surge of immigration, followed by other groups of Chinese.[31] A 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association approximated 60,000 Chinese in Flushing alone.[49] By 1990, Asians constituted 41% of the population of the core area of Flushing, with Chinese in turn representing 41% of the Asian population.[31] However, ethnic Chinese are constituting an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian population as well as of the overall population in Flushing and its Chinatown. High rates of both legal[50][51] and illegal[52] immigration from Mainland China continue to spur the ongoing rise of the ethnic Chinese population in Flushing. According to a Daily News article in 2011, Flushing's Chinatown ranked as New York City's second largest Chinese community with 33,526 Chinese, surpassed only by the Brooklyn Chinatown (布鲁克林華埠), and larger than Manhattan's Chinatown.[53] The growth of the business activity at the core of Downtown Flushing, dominated by the Flushing Chinatown, has continued to flourish despite the Covid-19 pandemic.[54]

 
Street vendor selling fruit under the Flushing–Main Street LIRR station

Flushing now rivals Manhattan's Chinatown as a center of Chinese culture.[55][56] The Lunar New Year Parade has become a growing annual celebration of Chinese New Year. In addition, several Chinese supermarkets such as Hong Kong Supermarket and New York Supermarket have locations in Flushing.[57][58][59] The World Journal, one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers outside China, is headquartered in adjacent Whitestone.[60] Numerous other Chinese- and English-language publications are available in Flushing, including SinoVision, one of North America's largest Chinese language television networks.

The popular styles of Chinese cuisine are ubiquitously accessible in Flushing,[61] including Hakka, Taiwanese, Shanghainese, Hunanese, Szechuan, Cantonese, Fujianese, Xinjiang, Zhejiang, and Korean Chinese cuisine. Even the relatively obscure Dongbei style of cuisine indigenous to Northeast China is now available in Flushing,[62] as well as Mongolian cuisine and Uyghur cuisine.[41] Varieties of Chinese spoken in Flushing include Mandarin Chinese,[63] Fuzhou dialect, Min Nan (Hokkien), Wu Chinese (Wenzhounese, Shanghainese, Suzhou dialect, Hangzhou dialect), and Cantonese; in addition, the Mongolian language is now emerging. Given its rapidly growing status, the Flushing Chinatown has surpassed in size and population the original New York City Chinatown in the borough of Manhattan[37] and this substantial growth has resulted in a commensurate rise in this Chinatown's cultural status.[64]

In accompaniment with its rapid growth, Flushing in particular has witnessed the proliferation of highly competitive businesses touted as educational centers as well as non-profit organizations declaring the intent to educate the community. Some entities offer education in Mandarin, the most spoken Chinese variety in mainland China.[65] A diverse array of social services geared toward assisting recent as well as established Chinese immigrants is readily available in Flushing.[66] As of the 2020s, about 3/4 of the Asian population in the area are of Chinese descent making them the majority of the Asian population.[67][68][69]

Korean community

 
Koreatown
Main article: Koreatown, Flushing

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. The Koreatown has historically been centered around Union Street, with the later growth being concentrated around Northern Boulevard east of Union Street.[70][71][72][73][74] As of the 2010 United States Census, the Korean population of Queens was 64,107.[75]

In the 1980s, a continuous stream of Korean immigrants emerged into Flushing, many of whom began as workers in the medical field or Korean international students who had moved to New York City to find or initiate professional or entrepreneurial positions.[71] They established a foothold on Union Street in Flushing between 35th and 41st Avenues,[71] featuring restaurants and karaoke (noraebang) bars, grocery markets, education centers and bookstores, banking institutions, offices, consumer electronics vendors, apparel boutiques, and other commercial enterprises.[70] As the community grew in wealth and population and rose in socioeconomic status, Koreans expanded their presence eastward along Northern Boulevard, buying homes in more affluent and less dense neighborhoods in Queens and Nassau County.[70][74] This expansion has led to the creation of an American Meokjagolmok, or Korean Restaurant Street, around the Murray Hill station.[70] The eastward pressure to expand was also created by the inability to move westward due to the Flushing Chinatown on Main Street.[71] Per the 2010 United States Census, the Korean population of Queens was 64,107,[75] representing the largest municipality in the United States with a density of at least 500 Korean Americans per square mile.[76] The Korean American population, consisting of 218,764 individuals in the New York metropolitan area,[77] is the second largest population of ethnic Koreans outside Korea.

The Korea Times, a news organization based in Seoul, carries a significant presence in the Long Island Koreatown. The Long Island Koreatown features numerous restaurants that serve both traditional and/or regional Korean cuisine. Korean is spoken frequently alongside English and Chinese varieties, and retail signs employing the Hangul alphabet are ubiquitous. A significant array of social services toward assisting recent and established Korean immigrants is available in Koreatown. There is also a significant population of Korean-Chinese or Chinese-Koreans in Flushing who can speak Mandarin, Korean, and English.[78]

Other ethnic communities

See also: Indians in the New York City metropolitan region

The neighborhood of East Flushing, technically within Greater Flushing, also houses a substantial Chinese community along with most of Downtown Flushing. However, East Flushing also substantially includes Irish, Greek, Russian, Italian and Jewish communities, as well as communities of Indians, Sri Lankans, Malaysians, and Hispanics, mostly Colombians and Salvadorans. This neighborhood tends to be more diverse visibly than Downtown Flushing because of the more even distribution of the ethnicities of East Flushing residents resulting in more ethnic businesses catering to each community rather than the dominance of Chinese and to a lesser extent Korean businesses in Downtown Flushing.

The northeastern section of Flushing near Bayside continues to maintain large Italian and Greek presences that are reflected in its many Italian and Greek bakeries, grocery stores and restaurants. The northwest is a mix of Jews, Greeks, and Italians. Most of central Flushing is an ethnic mix of Whites, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans.

 
Sikh Center in Flushing

An area south of Franklin Avenue houses a concentration of Indian, Pakistani, Afghan, and Bangladeshi markets. This concentration of Indian American and other South Asian American businesses south of Franklin Avenue has existed since the late 1970s, one of the oldest Little India neighborhoods in North America. The Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanam (Sanskrit: श्री महावल्लभ गणपति देवस्थानम्, Tamil: ஸ்ரீ மகா வல்லப கணபதி தேவஸ்தானம்) at 45-57 Bowne Street in Flushing was the very first of the traditional Hindu temples in the Western Hemisphere.[79][80] However, Indians are migrating eastward into neighborhoods in northeastern Queens and into Nassau County, as with many Chinese and Korean immigrants.

Subsections

Broadway–Flushing

Broadway–Flushing, also known as North Flushing, is a residential area with many large homes. The name refers to the area served by the "Broadway" station of the Long Island Rail Road. The Broadway station is located immediately east of the location where the LIRR's Port Washington Branch crosses Northern Boulevard, which when the station was opened in 1866 was called "Broadway". Part of this area has been designated a State and Federal historic district due to the elegant, park-like character of the neighborhood. Much of the area has been rezoned by the City of New York to preserve the low density, residential quality of the neighborhood. Broadway-Flushing is approximately bounded by 29th Avenue to the north, Northern Boulevard and Crocheron Avenue to the south, 155th Street to the west, and 172nd Streets to the east.

Linden Hill

"Linden Hill, Queens" redirects here. Not to be confused with Linden Hill, Ridgewood, Queens.

Linden Hill is bound by 25th Avenue to Willets Point Boulevard to the north, 154th Street to the east, Northern Boulevard to the south and the Whitestone Expressway to the west.[81]

Linden Hill was originally a rural estate owned by the Mitchell family. Ernest Mitchell owned an adjacent area known as Breezy Hill and his father owned the area now called Linden Hill.[82] The two areas are sometimes referred to as Mitchell-Linden. A major change in the rural nature of Linden Hill occurred in the early 1950s. Neisloss Brothers with architect Benjamin Braunstein envisioned a cooperative project to be set on Linden Hill and landfill of an adjacent swamp which would provide middle-income housing to veterans of World War II and the Korean War[82] under Section 213 of the Federal Housing Act of 1950.[83] Gerace and Castagna with architects Samuel Paul and Seymour Jarmul subsequently developed the larger Linden Towers several years after this. Paul was additionally the architect of Embassy Arms. In total, 41 six-story buildings containing 3,146 apartments comprising the Linden Hill, Mitchell Gardens, Linden Towers, and Embassy Arms cooperatives were erected.

Once a primarily European-American neighborhood, Linden Hill is now a diverse mix of European-Americans, Asian-Americans and Latino-Americans. The Asian-American population has expanded markedly in the southern part of Linden Hill in the past decade (as it has throughout Flushing) and the Latino-American population has also grown noticeably. Conversely, the European-American population has lessened somewhat, though European-Americans still remain in great numbers north of Bayside Avenue, west of 149th Street.

Murray Hill

 
Map of Murray Hill (including Broadway–Flushing)

Murray Hill is bounded by 150th Street to the west and 160th Street to the east and straddles ZIP Codes 11354, 11355, and 11358.[74] Traditionally the home of families of Irish and Italian immigrants, many Korean and Chinese immigrants have moved into Murray Hill in recent years. Murray Hill within Flushing is often confused with the larger Murray Hill neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan.[74][84]

Before the area was developed for residential housing in 1889, Murray Hill was the location of several large nurseries owned by the King, Murray, and Parsons families.[85] The Kingsland Homestead has been preserved as the home of the Queens Historical Society.[74] The Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden is also located in Murray Hill.[86] Comic strip artist Richard F. Outcault, the creator of The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown, lived on 147th Street in Murray Hill.[87]

Queensboro Hill

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 the NewYork–Presbyterian/Queens hospital. One of the leading churches is the Queensboro Hill Community Church, a multi-racial congregation of the Reformed Church in America. Turtle Playground serves the residents of this section of Flushing. This area is often referred to as South Flushing.

Waldheim

 
Map of Waldheim, early 20th century

The Waldheim neighborhood, an estate subdivision in Flushing constructed primarily between 1875 and 1925, is bound by Sanford and Franklin Avenues on the north, 45th Avenue on the south, Bowne Street on the west and Parsons Boulevard on the east. The area is immediately southeast of the downtown Flushing commercial core, and adjacent to Kissena Park. a small district of upscale "in-town" suburban architecture. Waldheim, German for "home in the woods", is known for its large homes of varying architectural styles and is laid out in an unusual street pattern.[88]

Waldheim was the home of some of Flushing's wealthiest residents until the 1960s. Notable residents include the Helmann family of condiment fame, the Steinway piano-making family, as well as A. Douglas Nash, who managed a nearby Tiffany glass plant. Starting in the 1980s, homes in Waldheim were destroyed by the Korean American Presbyterian Church of Queens, one of the area's largest land owners.[89] In 2008, the city rezoned the neighborhood to help preserve the low-density, residential character of the neighborhood. As with the Broadway neighborhood, preservationists have been unable to secure designation as an Historic District by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, and as of 2017, structures in Waldheim were still being torn down.[90]

Points of interest

Houses of worship

 
Free Synagogue of Flushing, located at 41-60 Kissena Boulevard, near Sanford Avenue
 
Pure Presbyterian Church, located at 142-08 32nd Avenue, near Union Street

Flushing is a religiously diverse community. Houses of worship in Flushing include the Dutch colonial epoch Quaker Meeting House, the historic Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Queens, St. Andrew Avellino Roman Catholic Church, St. George's Episcopal Church, the Free Synagogue of Flushing, the Congregation of Georgian Jews, St. Mel Roman Catholic Church, St. Michael's Catholic Church, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Shrine Church, Holy Annunciation Russian Orthodox Church, St. John's Lutheran Church, Queensboro Hill Community Church, Hindu Temple Society of North America, and the Muslim Center of New York.[91]

There are more than 200 houses of worship in Flushing.[92]

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 citizens protested a ban imposed by Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of New Amsterdam, forbidding the harboring of Quakers. The Remonstrants cited the Flushing Town charter of 1645, which promised liberty of conscience.[9]

Landmarks, museums, and cultural institutions

 
Fitzgerald-Ginsberg Mansion
 
The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, symbol of the 1964 New York World's Fair

Flushing has many registered New York City Landmarks, several of which are also located on the National Register of Historic Places. Several city landmarks are located on the Queens Historical Society's Freedom Mile.[93] Flushing Town Hall on Northern Boulevard is the headquarters of the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and houses a concert hall and cultural center.[94] Other landmarks include the Bowne House,[95] Kingsland Homestead,[96] the Weeping Beech,[97] Old Quaker Meeting House,[98] Flushing High School,[99] St. George's Church,[100] the Lewis H. Latimer House,[101] and the inside of the former RKO Keith's movie theater.[102] The Flushing Armory, on Northern Boulevard, was formerly used by the National Guard.[103]

There are several other landmarks in Flushing, but outside the Freedom Mile. These include the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing,[104] the Fitzgerald/Ginsberg Mansion,[105] on Bayside Avenue and the Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden.[106] In addition, the Broadway-Flushing Historic District, Free Synagogue of Flushing, United States Post Office, and Main Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[107]

The Queens Botanical Garden is located on 39 acres (16 ha) between College Point Boulevard and Main Street.[108] It has been in operation continuously since its opening as an exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair,[109] and has been at its current location since 1963.[110] The Botanical Garden carries on Flushing's horticultural tradition that dates back to the area's 18th-century tree nurseries and seed farms.[109]

Parks

 
Arthur Ashe Stadium, built in 1997 at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, is the world's largest tennis-specific stadium.

Public parks and playgrounds in Flushing are supervised by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, an 897-acre (3.63 km2) park, is the largest park in Queens.[111][112] The site hosted two World's Fairs, in 1939–1940 and 1964–1965, and the park infrastructure reflects the construction undertaken for the Fairs.[113][114] The northern part of the park contains Citi Field, home of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball; the field, opened in 2009, replaced the former Shea Stadium.[115] To the south is the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center which is the home of the US Tennis Open.[116]

Several attractions were originally developed for the World's Fairs in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. One of the most prominent is the Unisphere, the iconic 12-story-high stainless steel globe that served as the centerpiece for the 1964 New York World's Fair, which was made a city landmark.[117] Additionally, there is a stone marker for the two 5,000-year Westinghouse Time Capsules made of special alloys buried in the park, chronicling 20th-century life in the United States, dedicated both in 1938 and 1965. Also in the park are the Queens Museum of Art which features a scale model of the City of New York, the largest architectural model ever built; Queens Theatre in the Park; the New York Hall of Science; and the Queens Zoo.[118] The New York State Pavilion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[107]

Other parks

  • Kissena Park is a 234-acre (0.95 km2) park with a lake as a centerpiece.[119]
  • Kissena Corridor Park is a 100-acre (0.40 km2) park which connects two separate corridors, adjoining Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to Kissena Park. It contains a baseball field and a playground called Rachel Carson Playground.[120]
  • Bowne Park is an 11-acre (45,000 m2) park developed on the former estate of New York City Mayor Walter Bowne.[121]
  • Flushing Fields is a 10-acre (40,000 m2) greenbelt that includes the home athletic field of Flushing High School.[122]

Malls

 
Flushing Commons, seen from Lippmann Plaza near 39th Avenue and 138th Street
  • Queens Crossing, at 39th Avenue and 136th Street, which opened in 2017.[123]
  • New World Mall, at Roosevelt Avenue east of Main Street
  • One Fulton Square, at 39th Avenue and Prince Street, which opened in 2014.[124]
  • The Shops at Skyview Center, at College Point Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue, which opened in 2010.[125] The mall also contains a condominium development atop it.[126]
  • Flushing Commons, at 39th Avenue and Union Street, which opened its first phase in 2017. This is a multi-phase retail and housing development project.[127]
  • Tangram, at 39th Avenue and 133rd Street. It is in development and set to house the first 4DX movie theater in Queens.[128]

Police and crime

Flushing, College Point, and Whitestone are patrolled by the 109th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 37-05 Union Street.[129] The 109th Precinct ranked 9th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.[130] As of 2018, with a non-fatal assault rate of 17 per 100,000 people, Flushing and Whitestone's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 145 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.[43]: 8 

The 109th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 83.7% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 6 murders, 30 rapes, 202 robberies, 219 felony assaults, 324 burglaries, 970 grand larcenies, and 126 grand larcenies auto in 2018.[131]

Fire safety

Flushing contains the following New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations:[132]

  • Engine Company 273/Ladder Company 129 – 40-18 Union Street[133]
  • Engine Company 274/Battalion 52 – 41-20 Murray Street[134]
  • Engine Company 320/Ladder Company 167 – 36-18 Francis Lewis Boulevard[135]

In addition, FDNY EMS Station 52 is located at 135-16 38th Avenue.

Health

As of 2018, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Flushing and Whitestone than in other places citywide. In Flushing and Whitestone, there were 63 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 8 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).[43]: 11  Flushing and Whitestone have a higher than average population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 14%, slightly higher than the citywide rate of 12%.[43]: 14 

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Flushing and Whitestone is 0.0073 milligrams per cubic metre (7.3×10−9 oz/cu ft), less than the city average.[43]: 9  Thirteen percent of Flushing and Whitestone residents are smokers, which is lower than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.[43]: 13  In Flushing and Whitestone, 13% of residents are obese, 8% are diabetic, and 22% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 22%, 8%, and 23% respectively.[43]: 16  In addition, 15% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.[43]: 12 

Ninety-five percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 71% of residents described their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent," lower than the city's average of 78%.[43]: 13  For every supermarket in Flushing and Whitestone, there are 6 bodegas.[43]: 10 

The nearest major hospitals are NewYork–Presbyterian/Queens and Flushing Hospital Medical Center.[136] NewYork–Presbyterian/Queens serves Flushing as well as surrounding communities with comprehensive medical care services.[137] Numerous tertiary medical clinics also serve the residents of Flushing.

Post offices and ZIP Codes

Flushing is covered by multiple ZIP Codes. Downtown Flushing and western Murray Hill is covered by 11354; south Flushing, including Queensboro Hill and Waldheim, is included in 11355; and eastern Murray Hill and Broadway-Flushing fall within 11358. ZIP Codes 11356 and 11357, which are part of College Point and Whitestone respectively, also cover small parts of northern Flushing and Linden Hill.[138] The United States Post Office operates three post offices nearby:

ZIP Codes prefixed with 113 are administered from a sectional center at the Flushing Post Office. The 113-prefixed area extends west to Elmhurst and Jackson Heights; southwest to Ridgewood; south to Forest Hills; southeast to Fresh Meadows; and east to Bayside and Little Neck.[142]

Education

Flushing and Whitestone generally have a similar rate of college-educated residents to the rest of the city as of 2018. While 37% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 23% have less than a high school education and 40% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 39% of Queens residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.[43]: 6  The percentage of Flushing and Whitestone students excelling in math rose from 55% in 2000 to 78% in 2011, and reading achievement rose from 57% to 59% during the same time period.[143]

Flushing and Whitestone's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City. In Flushing and Whitestone, 9% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, lower than the citywide average of 20%.[44]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [43]: 6  Additionally, 86% of high school students in Flushing and Whitestone graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.[43]: 6 

Public schools

 
IS 237
 
The East-West School

Flushing's public schools are operated by the New York City Department of Education. Flushing contains the following public elementary schools, which serve grades PK-5 unless otherwise indicated:[144]

  • PS 20 John Bowne[145]
  • PS 21 Edward Hart[146]
  • PS 22 Thomas Jefferson[147]
  • PS 24 Andrew Jackson (grades K-5)[148]
  • PS 32 State Street[149]
  • PS 107 Thomas A. Dooley[150]
  • PS 120[151]
  • PS 163 Flushing Heights[152]
  • PS 214 Cadwallader Colden[153]
  • PS 242 Leonard P Stavisky Early Childhood School (grades PK-3)[154]
  • PS 244 The Active Learning Elementary School (grades PK-3)[155]

Public middle schools include:[144]

The eight public high schools in Flushing are:[144]

Private schools

The private high schools include:

On December 22, 1980,[161] The Japanese School of New York moved from Jamaica Estates, Queens into Fresh Meadows, Queens,[162] near Flushing. In 1991, the school moved to Yonkers in Westchester County, New York, before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1992.[161]

As a result of the high number of Chinese and Korean immigrants with (Confucius) educationally orientated outlooks, there is a large number of cram schools (Buxiban and hagwon) located not only in Flushing, but also following Northern Blvd. west into Nassau County.[163]

Higher education

 
Queens College's Student Union building

Queens College, founded in 1937, is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), and is commonly misconstrued to be within Flushing neighborhood limits due to its Flushing mailing address. It is actually located in the nearby neighborhood of Kew Gardens Hills on Kissena Boulevard near the Long Island Expressway. The City University of New York School of Law was founded in 1983 adjacent to the Queens College campus, and was located at 65-21 Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills until 2012.[164] It moved to Long Island City for the Fall 2012 Semester. The Law School operates Main Street Legal Services Corp., a legal services clinic.

Libraries

 
Branch of the Queens Public Library in Flushing

Flushing contained the first public library in Queens, founded in 1858. Today, Queens Public Library contains five libraries in Flushing.[165]

The largest of the libraries is the Flushing branch, located at the intersection of Kissena Boulevard and Main Street in Flushing's central business district.[166] It is the busiest branch of the Queens Public Library,[166][167] the highest-circulation system in the United States.[168] This library has an auditorium for public events. The current building, designed by Polshek Partnership Architects, is the third to be built on the site—the first was a Carnegie library, built through a gift of Andrew Carnegie.[167]

The other branches are:

  • East Flushing – 196-36 Northern Boulevard[169]
  • McGoldrick – 155-06 Roosevelt Avenue[170]
  • Mitchell-Linden – 31-32 Union Street[171]
  • Queensboro Hill – 60-05 Main Street[172]

In addition, the Auburndale, Hillcrest, and Pomonok libraries carry Flushing addresses but are not located in Flushing proper.[165]

Transportation

Public transportation

The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Flushing:[173]

The n20G Nassau Inter-County Express bus route, which runs along Sanford Avenue and Northern Boulevard, terminates in Flushing.[173]

 
The Flushing–Main Street, the terminal station of the IRT Flushing Line (7 and <7>​ trains)

There is one New York City Subway station in Flushing, the Flushing–Main Street station at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue, served by the 7 and <7>​ trains.[174] It is one of the busiest stations in the New York City Subway system as of 2018[175]

The Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch also serves Flushing via the following stations:[176]

Roads

Major highways that serve the area include the Van Wyck Expressway and Whitestone Expressway (Interstate 678), Grand Central Parkway, and Long Island Expressway (Interstate 495). Northern Boulevard (part of New York State Route 25A) extends from the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City through Flushing into Nassau County. The Roosevelt Ave. Bridge over Flushing Creek was the largest fixed trunnion bascule type in the world when opened in 1927. However, it was decommissioned as a moving bridge when marine navigation was eliminated in the late 1930s.[177]

Political clout

The political stature of Flushing appears to be increasing significantly, 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 elected New York City Comptroller in November 2009. In 2018, Liu defeated incumbent Tony Avella to become the first of two Asian Americans in the New York State Senate.

At the same time, Shanghai-born Peter Koo was elected to succeed Liu to assume this council membership seat. Additionally, in 2012 Flushing resident Grace Meng, a State Assembly Member, was elected to Congress as the first Asian-American member of the United States House of Representatives from the eastern United States.

In popular culture

  • The first series of Charmin toilet paper commercials featuring Mr. Whipple (Dick Wilson) were filmed in Flushing at the Trade Rite supermarket on Bowne Street and Roosevelt Ave.
  • The rock band KISS first played at the Coventry Club on Queens Boulevard in 1973, and is said to have derived its name from Kissena Boulevard in Flushing.[178]
  • Joel Fleischman, the fictional character from the 1990s comedic drama Northern Exposure, was said to have relocated from Flushing. Often, references were made to actual locations around Main Street, Flushing.
  • The eponymous celebration in Taiwanese director Ang Lee's 1993 comedy hit The Wedding Banquet takes place in Downtown Flushing's Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel.
  • Fran Drescher's character Fran Fine on the TV show The Nanny, was said to have been raised in Flushing, where her family still lived. Drescher was born in Flushing Hospital.
  • Flushing was the location of the Stark Industries (later Stark International) munitions plant in Marvel Comics' original Iron Man series. In the movie Iron Man 2, the Stark Expo is located in Flushing.
  • On the Norman Lear-produced TV show All in the Family, in the episode when Edith Bunker was arrested for shoplifting, she mentions the names of a few long-gone stores that were in downtown Flushing. The Bunkers also mention having lived on Union Street in Flushing.
  • The main 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.
  • In the musical Hair, the character Claude Bukowski is from Flushing.
  • In The Simpsons episode "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", Homer, after having drunk a large quantity of crab juice and unable to find a restroom, sees a bus going to Flushing Meadows and imagines it to be a field full of toilets.
  • The 2014 novel Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish takes place largely in Flushing and surrounding neighborhoods. The novel depicts the unlikely romance between an Iraq War veteran and a Uighur immigrant.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby alludes to Flushing: "About half way between West Egg (Great Neck) and New York, the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile."[179]

Notable people

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External links

  •   Media related to Flushing, Queens at Wikimedia Commons
  •   Queens/Flushing-Northeast travel guide from Wikivoyage
  • "Flushing (Queens)" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

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Flushing is a neighborhood in the north central portion of the New York City borough of Queens The neighborhood is the fourth largest central business district in New York City 3 4 Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area and the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue at its core is the third busiest in New York City behind Times Square and Herald Square 5 FlushingNeighborhood of QueensAerial view of the neighborhoodLocation within New York CityCoordinates 40 45 54 N 73 48 18 W 40 765 N 73 805 W 40 765 73 805 Coordinates 40 45 54 N 73 48 18 W 40 765 N 73 805 W 40 765 73 805Country United StatesState New YorkCity New York CityCounty BoroughQueensCommunity DistrictQueens 7 1 Founded1645Town1683 1898Named forVlissingen NetherlandsPopulation 2010 2 Total72 008 176 000 with the subsections Race Ethnicity White9 5 Black4 2 Hispanic14 9 Asian69 2 Other Multiracial2 2 Economics Median income 39 804Time zoneUTC 5 EST Summer DST UTC 4 EDT ZIP Codes11354 11355 11358Area codes718 347 929 and 917Flushing was established as a settlement of New Netherland on October 10 1645 on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek It was named Vlissingen after the Dutch city of Vlissingen The English took control of New Amsterdam in 1664 and when Queens County was established in 1683 the Town of Flushing was one of the original five towns of Queens In 1898 Flushing was consolidated into the City of New York Development came in the early 20th century with the construction of bridges and public transportation An immigrant population composed mostly of Chinese and Koreans settled in Flushing in the late 20th century Flushing contains numerous residential subsections and its diversity is reflected by the numerous ethnic groups that reside there Flushing is served by several stations on the Long Island Rail Road s Port Washington Branch as well as the New York City Subway s IRT Flushing Line 7 and lt 7 gt trains which has its terminus at Main Street Flushing is located in Queens Community District 7 and its ZIP Codes are 11354 11355 and 11358 1 It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department s 109th Precinct Contents 1 History 1 1 Precolonial and colonial history 1 1 1 Dutch colony 1 1 2 English colony 1 2 19th century 1 3 20th century development 1 3 1 Asian communities 1 4 21st century transformation 1 4 1 Streetscape 2 Demographics 3 Cultural enclaves 3 1 Diverse Chinese communities 3 2 Korean community 3 3 Other ethnic communities 4 Subsections 4 1 Broadway Flushing 4 2 Linden Hill 4 3 Murray Hill 4 4 Queensboro Hill 4 5 Waldheim 5 Points of interest 5 1 Houses of worship 5 2 Landmarks museums and cultural institutions 5 3 Parks 5 3 1 Flushing Meadows Corona Park 5 3 2 Other parks 5 4 Malls 6 Police and crime 7 Fire safety 8 Health 9 Post offices and ZIP Codes 10 Education 10 1 Public schools 10 2 Private schools 10 3 Higher education 10 4 Libraries 11 Transportation 11 1 Public transportation 11 2 Roads 12 Political clout 13 In popular culture 14 Notable people 15 See also 16 References 17 External linksHistory Edit Old Flushing Burial Ground used in the 17th and 18th centuries now a park Precolonial and colonial history Edit Flushing was originally inhabited by the Matinecoc Indians prior to colonization and European settlement 6 Dutch colony Edit On October 10 1645 Flushing was established on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek under charter of the Dutch West India Company and was part of the New Netherland colony that was governed from New Amsterdam Lower Manhattan The settlement was named Vlissingen after the city of Vlissingen which was the European base of the Dutch West India company By 1657 the residents called the place Vlishing Eventually the formal traditional English name for the Dutch town Flushing would be settled upon despite being a Dutch colony many of the local early settlers were British who trickled down from nearby Connecticut colony 7 Unlike all other towns in the region the charter of Flushing allowed residents freedom of religion as practiced in Holland without the disturbance of any magistrate or ecclesiastical minister However in 1656 New Amsterdam Director General Peter Stuyvesant issued an edict prohibiting the harboring of Quakers On December 27 1657 the inhabitants of Flushing approved a protest known as The Flushing Remonstrance This petition contained religious arguments even mentioning freedom for Jews Turks and Egyptians but ended with a forceful declaration that any infringement of the town charter would not be tolerated Subsequently a farmer named John Bowne held Quaker meetings in his home and was arrested for this and deported to Holland Eventually he persuaded the Dutch West India Company to allow Quakers and others to worship freely 8 As such Flushing is claimed to be a birthplace of religious freedom in the New World 9 Landmarks remaining from the Dutch period in Flushing include the John Bowne House on Bowne Street and the Old Quaker Meeting House on Northern Boulevard The Remonstrance was signed at a house on the site of the former State Armory now a police facility on the south side Northern Boulevard between Linden Place and Union Street English colony Edit In 1664 the English took control of New Amsterdam ending Dutch control of the New Netherland colony and renamed it the Province of New York When Queens County was established in 1683 the Town of Flushing was one of the original five towns which comprised the county 10 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 smaller area for example the former Village of Flushing Ash Street now called Ash Avenue in the early 20th century Flushing was a seat of power as the Province of New York up to the American Revolution was led by Governor Cadwallader Colden based at his Spring Hill estate 11 12 Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America the most prominent being the Prince Bloodgood and Parsons nurseries 13 A 14 acre 5 7 ha tract of Parsons s exotic specimens was preserved on the north side of Kissena Park 14 The nurseries are also commemorated in the names of west east avenues that intersect Kissena Boulevard the streets are named after plants and ordered alphabetically from Ash Avenue in the north to Rose Avenue in the south 15 Flushing also supplied trees to the Greensward Project now known as Central Park in Manhattan 16 Well into the 20th century Flushing contained many horticultural establishments and greenhouses 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 during the war Following the Battle of Long Island Nathan Hale an officer in the Continental Army was apprehended near Flushing Bay while on what was probably an intelligence gathering mission and was later hanged Flushing in 1882 The 1785 Kingsland Homestead originally the residence of a wealthy Quaker merchant now serves as the home of the Queens Historical Society 17 19th century Edit Map of Flushing in 1891 During the 19th century as New York City continued to grow in population and economic vitality so did Flushing Its proximity to Manhattan was critical in its transformation into a fashionable residential area On April 15 1837 the Village of Flushing was incorporated within the Town of Flushing 18 19 20 The official seal was merely the words Village of Flushing surrounded by nondescript flowers No other emblem or flag is known to have been used The Village of Flushing included the neighbourhoods of Flushing Highlands Bowne Park Murray Hill Ingleside and Flushing Park 20 The Flushing and North Side Railroad opened its Port Washington Branch to Flushing in 1854 providing access to Hunters Point on the East River shore 21 By the mid 1860s Queens County had 30 429 residents The Village of College Point was incorporated in 1867 22 and the Village of Whitestone was incorporated in 1868 The first free public high school in what is now New York City was established in Flushing in 1875 Flushing then a small village established a library in 1858 the oldest in Queens County and only slightly younger than the library of the City of Brooklyn built in 1852 In 1898 although opposed to the proposal the Town of Flushing along with two other towns and other land of Queens County was consolidated into the City of New York to form the new Borough of Queens All towns villages and cities within the new borough were dissolved Local farmland continued to be subdivided and developed transforming Flushing into a densely populated neighborhood of New York City A major factor in this was the Halleran real estate agency From the American Civil War to the end of the 1930s its slogan Ask Mr Halleran could be seen in ads all over Long Island and the phrase from its maps So This Is Flushing became a catchphrase 23 24 20th century development Edit The continued construction of bridges over the Flushing River and the development of other roads increased the volume of vehicular traffic into Flushing In 1909 the Queensboro Bridge over the East River opened connecting Queens County to midtown Manhattan 25 With the opening of Pennsylvania Station the next year the Port Washington Branch now part of the Long Island Rail Road started running to midtown Manhattan 26 Broadway a main roadway through Flushing was widened and renamed Northern Boulevard 27 The Roosevelt Avenue Bridge over the Flushing River which carries four lanes of traffic and the New York City Subway s elevated Flushing Line 7 and lt 7 gt trains was the largest trunnion bascule bridge in the world when it was completed in 1927 28 29 The next year the Main Street terminal of the Flushing subway line opened in downtown Flushing giving the neighborhood direct subway access 30 Flushing was a forerunner of Hollywood when the young American film industry was still based on the U S East Coast and Chicago Decades later the RKO Keith s movie palace would host vaudeville acts and appearances by the likes of Mickey Rooney the Marx Brothers and Bob Hope Main Street 1920 Asian communities Edit Flushing Chinatown In the 1970s immigrants from Taiwan established a foothold in Flushing whose demographic constituency had been predominantly non Hispanic white interspersed with a small Japanese community Additionally a large South Korean population also called Flushing home The Taiwanese immigrants were the first wave of Chinese speaking immigrants who spoke Mandarin Taiwanese also spoken rather than Cantonese to arrive in New York City Many Taiwanese immigrants were additionally Hokkien and had relatives or connections to Fujian province in China which led to large influxes of Fuzhounese Americans dubious discuss Over the years many new non Cantonese ethnic Chinese immigrants from different regions and provinces of China started to arrive in New York City and settled in Flushing through word of mouth This wave of immigrants spoke Mandarin and various regional provincial dialects The early 1990s and 2000s brought a wave of Fuzhounese Americans and Wenzhounese immigrants who mostly spoke Mandarin and who settled in Flushing as well as Elmhurst Flushing s Chinese population became diverse over the next few decades as people from different provinces started to arrive 31 32 33 34 Due to loosened emigration restrictions in mainland China there has been a growing Northern Chinese population in Flushing The regional food cuisines have led to Flushing being considered the food mecca for Chinese regional cuisine outside of Asia 35 36 21st century transformation Edit Main article Downtown Flushing In the 21st century Flushing has cemented its status as an international melting pot predominantly attracting immigrants from Asia particularly from throughout the various provinces of China but including newcomers from all over the world Flushing Chinatown is centered around Main Street and the area to its west most prominently along Roosevelt Avenue which have become the primary nexus of Flushing Chinatown However Chinatown continues to expand southeastward along Kissena Boulevard and northward beyond Northern Boulevard The Flushing Chinatown houses over 30 000 individuals born in China alone the largest Chinatown by this metric outside Asia and one of the largest and fastest growing Chinatowns in the world 37 In January 2019 the New York Post named Flushing as New York City s most dynamic outer borough neighborhood 38 Flushing is undergoing rapid gentrification by Chinese transnational entities 39 Streetscape Edit The busy intersection of Main Street Kissena Boulevard and 41st Avenue in the Flushing Chinatown 法拉盛華埠 Downtown Flushing the third busiest pedestrian intersection in New York City The segment of Main Street between Kissena Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue punctuated by the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch overpass represents the cultural heart of Flushing Chinatown Housing over 30 000 individuals born in China alone the largest by this metric outside Asia Flushing has become home to the largest and one of the fastest growing Chinatowns in the world known as the Chinese Times Square or the Chinese Manhattan 40 41 37 Demographics EditBased on data from the 2010 United States Census the population of Flushing was 72 008 an increase of 2 646 3 8 from the 69 362 counted in 2000 Covering an area of 853 06 acres 345 22 ha the neighborhood had a population density of 84 4 inhabitants per acre 54 000 sq mi 20 900 km2 2 The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 9 5 6 831 White 4 2 3 016 African American 0 1 74 Native American 69 2 49 830 Asian 0 1 59 Pacific Islander 0 2 172 from other races and 1 8 1 303 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 14 9 10 723 of the population 42 The entirety of Community Board 7 which comprises Flushing College Point and Whitestone had 263 039 inhabitants as of NYC Health s 2018 Community Health Profile with an average life expectancy of 84 3 years 43 2 20 This is longer than the median life expectancy of 81 2 for all New York City neighborhoods 44 53 PDF p 84 45 Most inhabitants are middle aged and elderly 22 are between the ages of between 25 and 44 30 between 45 and 64 and 18 over 65 The ratio of youth and college aged residents was lower at 17 and 7 respectively 43 2 As of 2017 the median household income in Community Board 7 was 51 284 46 In 2018 an estimated 25 of Flushing and Whitestone residents lived in poverty compared to 19 in all of Queens and 20 in all of New York City One in seventeen residents 6 were unemployed compared to 8 in Queens and 9 in New York City Rent burden or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent is 57 in Flushing and Whitestone higher than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53 and 51 respectively Based on this calculation as of 2018 update Flushing and Whitestone are considered to be high income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying 43 7 Cultural enclaves EditDiverse Chinese communities Edit See also Chinatowns in Queens Flushing Chinatown Flushing The intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt AvenueTraditional Chinese法拉盛華埠Simplified Chinese法拉盛华埠TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinFǎlasheng Hua BuGwoyeu RomatzyhFaalashenq HwabuhWade GilesFa3la1sheng4 Hua2 Pu4Tongyong PinyinFǎlasheng Hua BuIPA fa la ʂe ŋ xwa pʰu Yue CantoneseJyutpingFaat3laa1sing4 Waa4 Bou6IPA faːtlaːsȉŋ wȁːpou Southern MinHokkien POJNiu iok Hoa buFlushing Chinatown or Mandarin Town 47 is the world s largest and one of the fastest growing Chinatowns known as the Chinese Times Square or the Chinese Manhattan 40 41 In Mandarin Flushing is known as Falasheng Chinese 法拉盛 pinyin Fǎlasheng 48 The Chinatown of Flushing is centered around the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue and many of the area s Chinese businesses are located on the blocks around or west of Main Street 37 However Chinatown continues to expand southeastward along Kissena Boulevard and northward beyond Northern Boulevard In the 1970s a Chinese community established a foothold in the neighborhood of Flushing whose demographic constituency had been predominantly non Hispanic white Taiwanese began the surge of immigration followed by other groups of Chinese 31 A 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association approximated 60 000 Chinese in Flushing alone 49 By 1990 Asians constituted 41 of the population of the core area of Flushing with Chinese in turn representing 41 of the Asian population 31 However ethnic Chinese are constituting an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian population as well as of the overall population in Flushing and its Chinatown High rates of both legal 50 51 and illegal 52 immigration from Mainland China continue to spur the ongoing rise of the ethnic Chinese population in Flushing According to a Daily News article in 2011 Flushing s Chinatown ranked as New York City s second largest Chinese community with 33 526 Chinese surpassed only by the Brooklyn Chinatown 布鲁克林華埠 and larger than Manhattan s Chinatown 53 The growth of the business activity at the core of Downtown Flushing dominated by the Flushing Chinatown has continued to flourish despite the Covid 19 pandemic 54 Street vendor selling fruit under the Flushing Main Street LIRR stationFlushing now rivals Manhattan s Chinatown as a center of Chinese culture 55 56 The Lunar New Year Parade has become a growing annual celebration of Chinese New Year In addition several Chinese supermarkets such as Hong Kong Supermarket and New York Supermarket have locations in Flushing 57 58 59 The World Journal one of the largest Chinese language newspapers outside China is headquartered in adjacent Whitestone 60 Numerous other Chinese and English language publications are available in Flushing including SinoVision one of North America s largest Chinese language television networks The popular styles of Chinese cuisine are ubiquitously accessible in Flushing 61 including Hakka Taiwanese Shanghainese Hunanese Szechuan Cantonese Fujianese Xinjiang Zhejiang and Korean Chinese cuisine Even the relatively obscure Dongbei style of cuisine indigenous to Northeast China is now available in Flushing 62 as well as Mongolian cuisine and Uyghur cuisine 41 Varieties of Chinese spoken in Flushing include Mandarin Chinese 63 Fuzhou dialect Min Nan Hokkien Wu Chinese Wenzhounese Shanghainese Suzhou dialect Hangzhou dialect and Cantonese in addition the Mongolian language is now emerging Given its rapidly growing status the Flushing Chinatown has surpassed in size and population the original New York City Chinatown in the borough of Manhattan 37 and this substantial growth has resulted in a commensurate rise in this Chinatown s cultural status 64 In accompaniment with its rapid growth Flushing in particular has witnessed the proliferation of highly competitive businesses touted as educational centers as well as non profit organizations declaring the intent to educate the community Some entities offer education in Mandarin the most spoken Chinese variety in mainland China 65 A diverse array of social services geared toward assisting recent as well as established Chinese immigrants is readily available in Flushing 66 As of the 2020s about 3 4 of the Asian population in the area are of Chinese descent making them the majority of the Asian population 67 68 69 Korean community Edit Koreatown Main article Koreatown Flushing 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 The Koreatown has historically been centered around Union Street with the later growth being concentrated around Northern Boulevard east of Union Street 70 71 72 73 74 As of the 2010 United States Census the Korean population of Queens was 64 107 75 In the 1980s a continuous stream of Korean immigrants emerged into Flushing many of whom began as workers in the medical field or Korean international students who had moved to New York City to find or initiate professional or entrepreneurial positions 71 They established a foothold on Union Street in Flushing between 35th and 41st Avenues 71 featuring restaurants and karaoke noraebang bars grocery markets education centers and bookstores banking institutions offices consumer electronics vendors apparel boutiques and other commercial enterprises 70 As the community grew in wealth and population and rose in socioeconomic status Koreans expanded their presence eastward along Northern Boulevard buying homes in more affluent and less dense neighborhoods in Queens and Nassau County 70 74 This expansion has led to the creation of an American Meokjagolmok or Korean Restaurant Street around the Murray Hill station 70 The eastward pressure to expand was also created by the inability to move westward due to the Flushing Chinatown on Main Street 71 Per the 2010 United States Census the Korean population of Queens was 64 107 75 representing the largest municipality in the United States with a density of at least 500 Korean Americans per square mile 76 The Korean American population consisting of 218 764 individuals in the New York metropolitan area 77 is the second largest population of ethnic Koreans outside Korea The Korea Times a news organization based in Seoul carries a significant presence in the Long Island Koreatown The Long Island Koreatown features numerous restaurants that serve both traditional and or regional Korean cuisine Korean is spoken frequently alongside English and Chinese varieties and retail signs employing the Hangul alphabet are ubiquitous A significant array of social services toward assisting recent and established Korean immigrants is available in Koreatown There is also a significant population of Korean Chinese or Chinese Koreans in Flushing who can speak Mandarin Korean and English 78 Other ethnic communities Edit See also Indians in the New York City metropolitan region The neighborhood of East Flushing technically within Greater Flushing also houses a substantial Chinese community along with most of Downtown Flushing However East Flushing also substantially includes Irish Greek Russian Italian and Jewish communities as well as communities of Indians Sri Lankans Malaysians and Hispanics mostly Colombians and Salvadorans This neighborhood tends to be more diverse visibly than Downtown Flushing because of the more even distribution of the ethnicities of East Flushing residents resulting in more ethnic businesses catering to each community rather than the dominance of Chinese and to a lesser extent Korean businesses in Downtown Flushing Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanam Hindu Temple The northeastern section of Flushing near Bayside continues to maintain large Italian and Greek presences that are reflected in its many Italian and Greek bakeries grocery stores and restaurants The northwest is a mix of Jews Greeks and Italians Most of central Flushing is an ethnic mix of Whites Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans Sikh Center in Flushing An area south of Franklin Avenue houses a concentration of Indian Pakistani Afghan and Bangladeshi markets This concentration of Indian American and other South Asian American businesses south of Franklin Avenue has existed since the late 1970s one of the oldest Little India neighborhoods in North America The Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanam Sanskrit श र मह वल लभ गणपत द वस थ नम Tamil ஸ ர மக வல லப கணபத த வஸ த னம at 45 57 Bowne Street in Flushing was the very first of the traditional Hindu temples in the Western Hemisphere 79 80 However Indians are migrating eastward into neighborhoods in northeastern Queens and into Nassau County as with many Chinese and Korean immigrants Subsections EditBroadway Flushing Edit Broadway Flushing also known as North Flushing is a residential area with many large homes The name refers to the area served by the Broadway station of the Long Island Rail Road The Broadway station is located immediately east of the location where the LIRR s Port Washington Branch crosses Northern Boulevard which when the station was opened in 1866 was called Broadway Part of this area has been designated a State and Federal historic district due to the elegant park like character of the neighborhood Much of the area has been rezoned by the City of New York to preserve the low density residential quality of the neighborhood Broadway Flushing is approximately bounded by 29th Avenue to the north Northern Boulevard and Crocheron Avenue to the south 155th Street to the west and 172nd Streets to the east Linden Hill Edit Linden Hill Queens redirects here Not to be confused with Linden Hill Ridgewood Queens Linden Hill is bound by 25th Avenue to Willets Point Boulevard to the north 154th Street to the east Northern Boulevard to the south and the Whitestone Expressway to the west 81 Linden Hill was originally a rural estate owned by the Mitchell family Ernest Mitchell owned an adjacent area known as Breezy Hill and his father owned the area now called Linden Hill 82 The two areas are sometimes referred to as Mitchell Linden A major change in the rural nature of Linden Hill occurred in the early 1950s Neisloss Brothers with architect Benjamin Braunstein envisioned a cooperative project to be set on Linden Hill and landfill of an adjacent swamp which would provide middle income housing to veterans of World War II and the Korean War 82 under Section 213 of the Federal Housing Act of 1950 83 Gerace and Castagna with architects Samuel Paul and Seymour Jarmul subsequently developed the larger Linden Towers several years after this Paul was additionally the architect of Embassy Arms In total 41 six story buildings containing 3 146 apartments comprising the Linden Hill Mitchell Gardens Linden Towers and Embassy Arms cooperatives were erected Once a primarily European American neighborhood Linden Hill is now a diverse mix of European Americans Asian Americans and Latino Americans The Asian American population has expanded markedly in the southern part of Linden Hill in the past decade as it has throughout Flushing and the Latino American population has also grown noticeably Conversely the European American population has lessened somewhat though European Americans still remain in great numbers north of Bayside Avenue west of 149th Street Murray Hill Edit Map of Murray Hill including Broadway Flushing Murray Hill is bounded by 150th Street to the west and 160th Street to the east and straddles ZIP Codes 11354 11355 and 11358 74 Traditionally the home of families of Irish and Italian immigrants many Korean and Chinese immigrants have moved into Murray Hill in recent years Murray Hill within Flushing is often confused with the larger Murray Hill neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan 74 84 Before the area was developed for residential housing in 1889 Murray Hill was the location of several large nurseries owned by the King Murray and Parsons families 85 The Kingsland Homestead has been preserved as the home of the Queens Historical Society 74 The Voelker Orth Museum Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden is also located in Murray Hill 86 Comic strip artist Richard F Outcault the creator of The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown lived on 147th Street in Murray Hill 87 Queensboro Hill Edit 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 the NewYork Presbyterian Queens hospital One of the leading churches is the Queensboro Hill Community Church a multi racial congregation of the Reformed Church in America Turtle Playground serves the residents of this section of Flushing This area is often referred to as South Flushing Waldheim Edit Map of Waldheim early 20th century The Waldheim neighborhood an estate subdivision in Flushing constructed primarily between 1875 and 1925 is bound by Sanford and Franklin Avenues on the north 45th Avenue on the south Bowne Street on the west and Parsons Boulevard on the east The area is immediately southeast of the downtown Flushing commercial core and adjacent to Kissena Park a small district of upscale in town suburban architecture Waldheim German for home in the woods is known for its large homes of varying architectural styles and is laid out in an unusual street pattern 88 Waldheim was the home of some of Flushing s wealthiest residents until the 1960s Notable residents include the Helmann family of condiment fame the Steinway piano making family as well as A Douglas Nash who managed a nearby Tiffany glass plant Starting in the 1980s homes in Waldheim were destroyed by the Korean American Presbyterian Church of Queens one of the area s largest land owners 89 In 2008 the city rezoned the neighborhood to help preserve the low density residential character of the neighborhood As with the Broadway neighborhood preservationists have been unable to secure designation as an Historic District by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and as of 2017 update structures in Waldheim were still being torn down 90 Points of interest EditHouses of worship Edit Free Synagogue of Flushing located at 41 60 Kissena Boulevard near Sanford Avenue Pure Presbyterian Church located at 142 08 32nd Avenue near Union Street Flushing is a religiously diverse community Houses of worship in Flushing include the Dutch colonial epoch Quaker Meeting House the historic Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Queens St Andrew Avellino Roman Catholic Church St George s Episcopal Church the Free Synagogue of Flushing the Congregation of Georgian Jews St Mel Roman Catholic Church St Michael s Catholic Church St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Shrine Church Holy Annunciation Russian Orthodox Church St John s Lutheran Church Queensboro Hill Community Church Hindu Temple Society of North America and the Muslim Center of New York 91 There are more than 200 houses of worship in Flushing 92 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 citizens protested a ban imposed by Peter Stuyvesant the director general of New Amsterdam forbidding the harboring of Quakers The Remonstrants cited the Flushing Town charter of 1645 which promised liberty of conscience 9 Landmarks museums and cultural institutions Edit Fitzgerald Ginsberg Mansion The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park symbol of the 1964 New York World s Fair Flushing has many registered New York City Landmarks several of which are also located on the National Register of Historic Places Several city landmarks are located on the Queens Historical Society s Freedom Mile 93 Flushing Town Hall on Northern Boulevard is the headquarters of the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and houses a concert hall and cultural center 94 Other landmarks include the Bowne House 95 Kingsland Homestead 96 the Weeping Beech 97 Old Quaker Meeting House 98 Flushing High School 99 St George s Church 100 the Lewis H Latimer House 101 and the inside of the former RKO Keith s movie theater 102 The Flushing Armory on Northern Boulevard was formerly used by the National Guard 103 There are several other landmarks in Flushing but outside the Freedom Mile These include the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing 104 the Fitzgerald Ginsberg Mansion 105 on Bayside Avenue and the Voelker Orth Museum Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden 106 In addition the Broadway Flushing Historic District Free Synagogue of Flushing United States Post Office and Main Street Subway Station Dual System IRT are listed on the National Register of Historic Places 107 The Queens Botanical Garden is located on 39 acres 16 ha between College Point Boulevard and Main Street 108 It has been in operation continuously since its opening as an exhibit at the 1939 New York World s Fair 109 and has been at its current location since 1963 110 The Botanical Garden carries on Flushing s horticultural tradition that dates back to the area s 18th century tree nurseries and seed farms 109 Parks Edit Arthur Ashe Stadium built in 1997 at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park is the world s largest tennis specific stadium Public parks and playgrounds in Flushing are supervised by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Flushing Meadows Corona Park Edit Flushing Meadows Corona Park an 897 acre 3 63 km2 park is the largest park in Queens 111 112 The site hosted two World s Fairs in 1939 1940 and 1964 1965 and the park infrastructure reflects the construction undertaken for the Fairs 113 114 The northern part of the park contains Citi Field home of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball the field opened in 2009 replaced the former Shea Stadium 115 To the south is the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center which is the home of the US Tennis Open 116 Several attractions were originally developed for the World s Fairs in Flushing Meadows Corona Park One of the most prominent is the Unisphere the iconic 12 story high stainless steel globe that served as the centerpiece for the 1964 New York World s Fair which was made a city landmark 117 Additionally there is a stone marker for the two 5 000 year Westinghouse Time Capsules made of special alloys buried in the park chronicling 20th century life in the United States dedicated both in 1938 and 1965 Also in the park are the Queens Museum of Art which features a scale model of the City of New York the largest architectural model ever built Queens Theatre in the Park the New York Hall of Science and the Queens Zoo 118 The New York State Pavilion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 107 Other parks Edit Kissena Park is a 234 acre 0 95 km2 park with a lake as a centerpiece 119 Kissena Corridor Park is a 100 acre 0 40 km2 park which connects two separate corridors adjoining Flushing Meadows Corona Park to Kissena Park It contains a baseball field and a playground called Rachel Carson Playground 120 Bowne Park is an 11 acre 45 000 m2 park developed on the former estate of New York City Mayor Walter Bowne 121 Flushing Fields is a 10 acre 40 000 m2 greenbelt that includes the home athletic field of Flushing High School 122 Malls Edit Flushing Commons seen from Lippmann Plaza near 39th Avenue and 138th Street Queens Crossing at 39th Avenue and 136th Street which opened in 2017 123 New World Mall at Roosevelt Avenue east of Main Street One Fulton Square at 39th Avenue and Prince Street which opened in 2014 124 The Shops at Skyview Center at College Point Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue which opened in 2010 125 The mall also contains a condominium development atop it 126 Flushing Commons at 39th Avenue and Union Street which opened its first phase in 2017 This is a multi phase retail and housing development project 127 Tangram at 39th Avenue and 133rd Street It is in development and set to house the first 4DX movie theater in Queens 128 Police and crime EditFlushing College Point and Whitestone are patrolled by the 109th Precinct of the NYPD located at 37 05 Union Street 129 The 109th Precinct ranked 9th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per capita crime in 2010 130 As of 2018 update with a non fatal assault rate of 17 per 100 000 people Flushing and Whitestone s rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole The incarceration rate of 145 per 100 000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole 43 8 The 109th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s with crimes across all categories having decreased by 83 7 between 1990 and 2018 The precinct reported 6 murders 30 rapes 202 robberies 219 felony assaults 324 burglaries 970 grand larcenies and 126 grand larcenies auto in 2018 131 Fire safety EditFlushing contains the following New York City Fire Department FDNY fire stations 132 Engine Company 273 Ladder Company 129 40 18 Union Street 133 Engine Company 274 Battalion 52 41 20 Murray Street 134 Engine Company 320 Ladder Company 167 36 18 Francis Lewis Boulevard 135 In addition FDNY EMS Station 52 is located at 135 16 38th Avenue Health EditAs of 2018 update preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Flushing and Whitestone than in other places citywide In Flushing and Whitestone there were 63 preterm births per 1 000 live births compared to 87 per 1 000 citywide and 8 births to teenage mothers per 1 000 live births compared to 19 3 per 1 000 citywide 43 11 Flushing and Whitestone have a higher than average population of residents who are uninsured In 2018 this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 14 slightly higher than the citywide rate of 12 43 14 The concentration of fine particulate matter the deadliest type of air pollutant in Flushing and Whitestone is 0 0073 milligrams per cubic metre 7 3 10 9 oz cu ft less than the city average 43 9 Thirteen percent of Flushing and Whitestone residents are smokers which is lower than the city average of 14 of residents being smokers 43 13 In Flushing and Whitestone 13 of residents are obese 8 are diabetic and 22 have high blood pressure compared to the citywide averages of 22 8 and 23 respectively 43 16 In addition 15 of children are obese compared to the citywide average of 20 43 12 Ninety five percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day which is higher than the city s average of 87 In 2018 71 of residents described their health as good very good or excellent lower than the city s average of 78 43 13 For every supermarket in Flushing and Whitestone there are 6 bodegas 43 10 The nearest major hospitals are NewYork Presbyterian Queens and Flushing Hospital Medical Center 136 NewYork Presbyterian Queens serves Flushing as well as surrounding communities with comprehensive medical care services 137 Numerous tertiary medical clinics also serve the residents of Flushing Post offices and ZIP Codes EditFlushing is covered by multiple ZIP Codes Downtown Flushing and western Murray Hill is covered by 11354 south Flushing including Queensboro Hill and Waldheim is included in 11355 and eastern Murray Hill and Broadway Flushing fall within 11358 ZIP Codes 11356 and 11357 which are part of College Point and Whitestone respectively also cover small parts of northern Flushing and Linden Hill 138 The United States Post Office operates three post offices nearby Flushing Station 41 65 Main Street 139 Linden Hill Station 29 50 Union Street 140 Station A 40 03 164th Street 141 ZIP Codes prefixed with 113 are administered from a sectional center at the Flushing Post Office The 113 prefixed area extends west to Elmhurst and Jackson Heights southwest to Ridgewood south to Forest Hills southeast to Fresh Meadows and east to Bayside and Little Neck 142 Education EditFlushing and Whitestone generally have a similar rate of college educated residents to the rest of the city as of 2018 update While 37 of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher 23 have less than a high school education and 40 are high school graduates or have some college education By contrast 39 of Queens residents and 43 of city residents have a college education or higher 43 6 The percentage of Flushing and Whitestone students excelling in math rose from 55 in 2000 to 78 in 2011 and reading achievement rose from 57 to 59 during the same time period 143 Flushing and Whitestone s rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City In Flushing and Whitestone 9 of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year lower than the citywide average of 20 44 24 PDF p 55 43 6 Additionally 86 of high school students in Flushing and Whitestone graduate on time more than the citywide average of 75 43 6 Public schools Edit IS 237 The East West School Flushing s public schools are operated by the New York City Department of Education Flushing contains the following public elementary schools which serve grades PK 5 unless otherwise indicated 144 PS 20 John Bowne 145 PS 21 Edward Hart 146 PS 22 Thomas Jefferson 147 PS 24 Andrew Jackson grades K 5 148 PS 32 State Street 149 PS 107 Thomas A Dooley 150 PS 120 151 PS 163 Flushing Heights 152 PS 214 Cadwallader Colden 153 PS 242 Leonard P Stavisky Early Childhood School grades PK 3 154 PS 244 The Active Learning Elementary School grades PK 3 155 Public middle schools include 144 IS 25 Adrien Block 156 JHS 185 Edward Bleeker 157 JHS 189 Daniel Carter Beard 158 IS 237 Rachel Carson 159 The eight public high schools in Flushing are 144 John Bowne High School East West School of International Studies grades 6 12 Robert F Kennedy Community High School Townsend Harris High School a selective high school located on the Queens College campus was once ranked by U S News amp World Report as one of the best public high schools in the United States The Flushing International High School Flushing High School the oldest free public high school 1875 in what is now New York City It is housed in a distinctive Gothic Revival building built between 1912 and 1915 and declared a NYC Landmark in 1991 The Queens School of Inquiry Queens Academy High School 160 Private schools Edit The private high schools include Archbishop Molloy High School Holy Cross High SchoolOn December 22 1980 161 The Japanese School of New York moved from Jamaica Estates Queens into Fresh Meadows Queens 162 near Flushing In 1991 the school moved to Yonkers in Westchester County New York before moving to Greenwich Connecticut in 1992 161 As a result of the high number of Chinese and Korean immigrants with Confucius educationally orientated outlooks there is a large number of cram schools Buxiban and hagwon located not only in Flushing but also following Northern Blvd west into Nassau County 163 Higher education Edit Queens College s Student Union building Queens College founded in 1937 is a senior college of the City University of New York CUNY and is commonly misconstrued to be within Flushing neighborhood limits due to its Flushing mailing address It is actually located in the nearby neighborhood of Kew Gardens Hills on Kissena Boulevard near the Long Island Expressway The City University of New York School of Law was founded in 1983 adjacent to the Queens College campus and was located at 65 21 Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills until 2012 164 It moved to Long Island City for the Fall 2012 Semester The Law School operates Main Street Legal Services Corp a legal services clinic Libraries Edit Branch of the Queens Public Library in Flushing Flushing contained the first public library in Queens founded in 1858 Today Queens Public Library contains five libraries in Flushing 165 The largest of the libraries is the Flushing branch located at the intersection of Kissena Boulevard and Main Street in Flushing s central business district 166 It is the busiest branch of the Queens Public Library 166 167 the highest circulation system in the United States 168 This library has an auditorium for public events The current building designed by Polshek Partnership Architects is the third to be built on the site the first was a Carnegie library built through a gift of Andrew Carnegie 167 The other branches are East Flushing 196 36 Northern Boulevard 169 McGoldrick 155 06 Roosevelt Avenue 170 Mitchell Linden 31 32 Union Street 171 Queensboro Hill 60 05 Main Street 172 In addition the Auburndale Hillcrest and Pomonok libraries carry Flushing addresses but are not located in Flushing proper 165 Transportation EditPublic transportation Edit The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Flushing 173 Q12 to Little Neck via Sanford Avenue and Northern Boulevard Q13 to Fort Totten via Northern Boulevard Q15 and Q15A to Beechhurst via 41st Avenue and 150th Street Q16 to Fort Totten via Union Street and Bayside Avenue Q17 to Jamaica via Kissena Boulevard Q19 to Astoria via Northern Boulevard Q20A B to Jamaica or College Point via Main Street and Union Street Q25 to Sutphin Boulevard Archer Avenue JFK Airport E J and Z trains or College Point via Kissena Boulevard Main Street and Linden Place Q26 to Fresh Meadows via 41st Avenue Parsons Boulevard and 46th Avenue Q27 to Cambria Heights via Kissena Boulevard Holly Avenue and 46th Avenue Q28 to Bay Terrace via Northern Boulevard and Crocheron Avenue Q34 to Sutphin Boulevard Archer Avenue JFK Airport E J and Z trains or Linden Hill via Kissena Boulevard Main Street Linden Place and 28th Avenue Q44 SBS to Jamaica or West Farms Bronx via Main Street and Union Street Q48 to LaGuardia Airport via Roosevelt Avenue Q50 to Co op City Bronx via Linden Place and Whitestone Expressway Q58 to Myrtle Wyckoff Avenues L and M trains via College Point Boulevard Q65 to Sutphin Boulevard Archer Avenue JFK Airport E J and Z trains via Bowne Street and 45th Avenue Q66 to Queensboro Plaza 7 lt 7 gt N and W trains via Northern Boulevard The n20G Nassau Inter County Express bus route which runs along Sanford Avenue and Northern Boulevard terminates in Flushing 173 The Flushing Main Street the terminal station of the IRT Flushing Line 7 and lt 7 gt trains There is one New York City Subway station in Flushing the Flushing Main Street station at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue served by the 7 and lt 7 gt trains 174 It is one of the busiest stations in the New York City Subway system as of 2018 update 175 The Long Island Rail Road s Port Washington Branch also serves Flushing via the following stations 176 Mets Willets Point Flushing Main Street Murray Hill BroadwayRoads Edit Major highways that serve the area include the Van Wyck Expressway and Whitestone Expressway Interstate 678 Grand Central Parkway and Long Island Expressway Interstate 495 Northern Boulevard part of New York State Route 25A extends from the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City through Flushing into Nassau County The Roosevelt Ave Bridge over Flushing Creek was the largest fixed trunnion bascule type in the world when opened in 1927 However it was decommissioned as a moving bridge when marine navigation was eliminated in the late 1930s 177 Political clout EditThe political stature of Flushing appears to be increasing significantly 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 elected New York City Comptroller in November 2009 In 2018 Liu defeated incumbent Tony Avella to become the first of two Asian Americans in the New York State Senate At the same time Shanghai born Peter Koo was elected to succeed Liu to assume this council membership seat Additionally in 2012 Flushing resident Grace Meng a State Assembly Member was elected to Congress as the first Asian American member of the United States House of Representatives from the eastern United States In popular culture EditThe first series of Charmin toilet paper commercials featuring Mr Whipple Dick Wilson were filmed in Flushing at the Trade Rite supermarket on Bowne Street and Roosevelt Ave The rock band KISS first played at the Coventry Club on Queens Boulevard in 1973 and is said to have derived its name from Kissena Boulevard in Flushing 178 Joel Fleischman the fictional character from the 1990s comedic drama Northern Exposure was said to have relocated from Flushing Often references were made to actual locations around Main Street Flushing The eponymous celebration in Taiwanese director Ang Lee s 1993 comedy hit The Wedding Banquet takes place in Downtown Flushing s Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel Fran Drescher s character Fran Fine on the TV show The Nanny was said to have been raised in Flushing where her family still lived Drescher was born in Flushing Hospital Flushing was the location of the Stark Industries later Stark International munitions plant in Marvel Comics original Iron Man series In the movie Iron Man 2 the Stark Expo is located in Flushing On the Norman Lear produced TV show All in the Family in the episode when Edith Bunker was arrested for shoplifting she mentions the names of a few long gone stores that were in downtown Flushing The Bunkers also mention having lived on Union Street in Flushing The main 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 In the musical Hair the character Claude Bukowski is from Flushing In The Simpsons episode The City of New York vs Homer Simpson Homer after having drunk a large quantity of crab juice and unable to find a restroom sees a bus going to Flushing Meadows and imagines it to be a field full of toilets The 2014 novel Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish takes place largely in Flushing and surrounding neighborhoods The novel depicts the unlikely romance between an Iraq War veteran and a Uighur immigrant F Scott Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby alludes to Flushing About half way between West Egg Great Neck and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile 179 Notable people EditJudd Apatow born 1967 stand up comedian director producer actor screenwriter 180 Annet Artani born 1976 singer songwriter and international pop star 181 Yak Ballz rapper born Yashar Zadeh citation needed Daniel Carter Beard 1850 1941 founder of the Boy Scouts of America 182 Jerry Beck born 1955 animation historian citation needed Michael Bellusci musician 183 Black Sheep rap group citation needed James A Bland 1854 1911 singer and composer 184 Arthur Blank born 1942 co founder of The Home Depot and the owner of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United Joe Bolton 1910 1986 host of the WPIX show Clubhouse Gang and The Three Stooges Funhouse as Officer Joe Bolton citation needed Action Bronson born 1983 rapper 185 Godfrey Cambridge 1933 1976 comedian and actor 186 Cadwallader Colden 1688 1776 Lieutenant Governor and acting Governor for the Province of New York Estate was at Springhill now the location of Mount Hebron Cemetery Glenn Consor American Israeli NBA and NCAA basketball analyst who played collegiate and pro basketball 187 Joseph Cornell 1903 1972 artist 188 Manuel De Peppe actor singer musician arranger music producer songwriter citation needed Harris Doran born 1978 writer director actor producer Fran Drescher born 1957 actress author politician humanitarian cancer survivor activist known for The Nanny as Fran Fine 189 Thomas Duane born 1955 first openly gay member of the New York State Senate 190 Jimmy Durante 1893 1980 singer pianist comedian and actor citation needed Jon Favreau born 1966 actor producer director 191 F Scott Fitzgerald 1896 1940 novelist who lived at 29 34 146th Street citation needed Franky G born 1965 actor 192 Mic Geronimo born 1973 rapper citation needed Nancy Gertner federal court judge 193 Charles Dana Gibson 1867 1944 illustrator 194 Eugene Glazer born 1939 American Olympic fencer Mary Gordon born 1949 writer Al Greenwood born 1951 former keyboardist of Foreigner Marvin Hamlisch 1944 2012 composer Han Hee jun born 1989 American Idol contestant Mark Hurd 1957 2019 former CEO of Hewlett Packard and former CEO of Oracle Corp Dan Ingram 1934 2018 retired radio disc jockey 195 Sarah Jones Tony Award winning stage actress and poet Marilyn Kagan born 1951 actress and psychotherapist 196 Steve Karsay baseball player Keith and The Girl podcasters Kevin Flushing Flash Kelley boxer Clarence King explorer and geologist Yul Kwon television personality and winner of Survivor Cook Islands Cathy Ladman stand up comedian actress writer grew up in Little Neck Large Professor hip hop producer Gene Larkin Major League Baseball player Lewis Latimer inventor Martin Lawrence actor and comedian Sandra Lee Dr Pimple Popper TV and YouTube reality host Paul Martin Lester author and educator Ken Levine Creator of Bioshock Series CEO of Irrational Games Reggie Lucas 1953 2018 musician songwriter and record producer 197 Gene Mayer tennis player Sandy Mayer tennis player Nettie Mayersohn New York Assemblywoman from 1983 to 2011 Charles Momsen vice admiral who organized rescue of USS Squalus Robert Moog 1934 2005 inventor of the Moog synthesizer 198 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City Dining Archived December 21 2016 at the Wayback Machine GQ September 23 2011 Accessed June 21 2016 Given his gastronomical acumen we asked Bronson a Flushing native to take us on a food tour of his home city McManus Margaret Not So Cool Godfrey Cambridge Toledo Blade May 1 1966 Accessed June 21 2016 Godfrey macarthur Cambridge born to British Guiana parents who emigrated first to Sydney Nova Scotia and then came to New York grew up in Flushing Long Island Wizards Radio Network Washington Wizards Accessed December 7 2020 Originally from Flushing Queens New York Consor currently resides in Rockville Maryland with his wife Mara and two sons Kenny and Jonny Cotter Holland July 13 2007 Poetic Theaters Romantic Fevers The New York Times Archived from the original on November 5 2012 Retrieved October 8 2007 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 house he shared with his mother and disabled brother in Flushing Queens Scileppi Tammy Beating the odds Queens style Archived January 9 2017 at the Wayback Machine TimesLedger June 22 2012 Accessed January 8 2017 In a phone interview with the actress best known for her small screen role as comical character Fran Fine from the 1990s CBS series The Nanny the former Queens girl talked about growing up in Flushing and how some chapters of her life inspired two successful sitcoms Chen David W Champion of Gay Rights to Leave New York State Senate Archived January 9 2017 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times June 3 2012 Accessed January 8 2017 Mr Duane a native New Yorker who grew up in Flushing Queens first joined the family business as a Wall Street stockbroker Boucher Geoff Jon Favreau explains why he traded Iron Man 3 for Disneyland trip Archived October 14 2016 at the Wayback Machine Los Angeles Times December 14 2010 Accessed January 8 2017 Between the theme parks and the movies the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to Favreau said of his youth in Flushing N Y Ogunnaike Lola Film Brute Who Cries Still Lives In Queens Mailbox Overflows After Recent Roles Archived January 9 2017 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times June 19 2003 Accessed January 8 2017 Franky G was lounging at a park in Flushing Queens where he has lived since he was 17 Gertner Nancy 2011 In Defense of Women Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate Beacon Press p 13 ISBN 978 0 8070 1143 0 Staff CHARLES D 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 Archived July 26 2018 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times December 24 1944 Accessed January 8 2017 While he was still a child his parents moved to Flushing L I where he grew up Potempa Philip Jimmy Durante among personalities to be inducted in National Radio Hall of Fame Archived May 10 2017 at the Wayback Machine The Times of Northwest Indiana August 10 2007 Accessed January 8 2017 Dan Ingram was a rock radio pioneer and is considered by some as the best Top 40 DJ of all time Born and raised in Flushing Queens he mixed humor with an edgy irreverent style and spent more than 40 years behind the microphone beginning at WNHC New Haven CT Foxes The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel March 28 1980 p 54 via Newspapers com Reggie Lucas Obituary Archived July 12 2018 at the Wayback Machine legacy com accessdate July 20 2018 Kozinn Allan Robert Moog Creator of Music Synthesizer Dies at 71 Archived September 20 2016 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times August 23 2005 Accessed January 8 2017 Mr Moog was born in New York City on May 23 1934 and although he studied the piano while he was growing up in Flushing Queens his real interest was physics Linn Sarah Celebrity chef Rick Moonen on sustainable food Archived January 9 2017 at the Wayback Machine The Tribune San Luis Obispo September 13 2012 Accessed January 8 2017 Raised in Flushing N Y Moonen developed a fascination with food as a 12 year old paper boy Staff Lewis Mumford a Visionary Social Critic Dies at 94 Archived January 9 2017 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times January 28 1990 Accessed January 8 2017 The illegitimate son of a businessman and raised by his mother who was housekeeper in the home of a relative Lewis Mumford was born in Flushing Queens on Oct 19 1895 Cooper Michael New Yorker to Be Music Director of Phoenix Symphony The New York Times February 21 2014 Accessed January 8 2017 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 Mr Munoz 30 is from Flushing Queens Barca Christopher Former First Lady Nancy Reagan a Flushing native dies at 94The influential women called Queens home until she was two Archived January 22 2017 at the Wayback Machine Queens Chronicle March 6 2016 Accessed January 8 2017 Long before she called the White House home from 1981 to 1989 former First Lady Nancy Reagan who died of heart failure on Sunday at the age of 94 was a Flushing resident during her earliest years The wife of President Ronald Reagan was born in Manhattan on July 6 1921 but spent the first two years of her life living in a two story home at 417 Amity St in Flushing Richard Riordan Biography Archived January 9 2017 at the Wayback Machine Junior League of Los Angeles Accessed January 8 2017 Born in Flushing New York Richard J Riordan a partner at Bingham McCutchen law firm graduated from Princeton University and Michigan Law School Vinocur John May 2 2009 Experience the glory of Queens The New York Times Archived from the original on August 14 2018 Retrieved September 4 2010 Academy Award Winning Composer and Conductor John Williams to Bequeath Concert and Film Scores to Juilliard Juilliard School March 6 2018 Accessed December 7 2020 The son of a CBS radio orchestra percussionist Mr Williams was born in Flushing in 1932 and started studying piano at the age of 6 External links Edit Media related to Flushing Queens at Wikimedia Commons Queens Flushing Northeast travel guide from Wikivoyage Flushing Queens Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed 1911 Portal New York City Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Flushing Queens amp oldid 1131574913, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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