Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Main Street of Flushing, Part II, New York

Downtown Flushing is the largest urban center in Queens, and home to the second largest Chinatown in New York City (Flushing neighborhood profile).
The downtown sidewalks pulse with people – of all nationalities but predominantly East Asians, specifically Chinese and Koreans.
Queens Library, Flushing

Starbucks Coffee


Supermarket

Post Office

Sanford Av

Flushing Market . You can get everything you want to buy here.

Burger King
Mobil Petrol Station

Petrol price


Maximum Fine $450


Flushing Apartment - This is the place where I'm staying

Chinatown in Flushing is home to a vibrant middle class and blue-collar community, and is wealthier than Chinatown in Manhattan. Until the 1970s Flushing was mostly an Italian and Greek neighborhood, but the downtown was shaken by the economic turmoil of the 1970s.
People left Flushing and housing prices dropped. Korean and Chinese immigrants began to settle in Flushing by the late 1970s, and have predominated since the 1980s.

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