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Flushing Chinatown maps featuring banks,
transportation, restaurants, hotels, shopping, police, schools, firehouses,
houses of worship, and cultural attractions.
visit Manhattan Chinatown, and
Brooklyn Chinatown.
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Other Info, and History
About Flushing, Queens
There is something I like, and hate about (downtown) Flushing. In a way it reminds
me of Hong Kong with the massive number of people on the street, the bus
traffic, incoming planes flying reaaaaallly low overhead, and so many restaurants with big
gaudy signs out in front. But don't let that fool you, much of Flushing (outside the town center)
is very quiet, and residential.
Flushing, much like Queens as a whole, is very diverse. The community is
composed mainly of Chinese—from mainland China, with some
Taiwanese—Koreans, South Asian Indians, and Pakistanis. Latinos—many
from Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic—are the next
largest ethnic group forming nearly a quarter of Flushing's population,
followed by white, Jewish, and African-American.
So what can you find in downtown Flushing? Quite a lot. Flushing is a
pretty dynamic shopping area with many mainstream stores like Macy's, KFC,
Starbucks, and Payless Shoes right next door to Chinese herb shops, Korean
bakeries, and Asian supermarkets. There are over 17 banks clustered in
downtown Flushing with the number of deposits ($2 billion) second only to
Manhattan's Chinatown. One of the busiest, and most diverse library systems
in the United States happens to be the Queens Public Library, with the
flagship Flushing branch leading the way in the number of books loaned
[FN 1]. On Saturdays and Sundays, families gather to dine at the many
restaurants, and dim sum palaces in the area. Among the best is Gum Tong Gung,
located across the street from the recently built Flushing Mall.
Even with the bus traffic, the large numbers of people, and the business
of it all, Flushing doesn't seem too overcrowded, and traffic is not a
nightmare. Part of the reason is the huge numbers of parking lots that exist
in Flushing. Many businesses have their own private lots for customers, and
if they do not, the city provides three gigantic municipal lots conveniently
located in the center of town.
Footnote: The new Flushing library boasts the International
Resource Collection featuring hundreds of newspapers, and over 50,000 books,
CDs, DVDs, popular fiction, and academic titles in a language other than
English (primarily Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, and six South Asian
Languages) many of the titles you can't find anywhere else in the United
States.
Last updated 20 Mar 2003, what's new?
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