Flushing (Downtown) (New York City, New York)

 Chinatown, neighbourhood, town district

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The downtown area of Flushing is a vibrant and diverse community of retail and commercial amenities and social and cultural activities. In particular it is renowned in recent years for its expanding Chinatown, especiallly in the areas off main Street around Roosevelt Avenue. A 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association approximated 60,000 Chinese in Flushing alone. By 1990, Asians constituted 41% of the population of the core area of Flushing, with Chinese in turn representing 41% of the Asian population.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.

The downtown area is a rich venue for important social and cultural buildings. Flushing has many landmark buildings. Flushing Town Hall on Northern Boulevard is the headquarters of the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The building houses a concert hall and cultural center and is one of the sites designated along the Queens Historical Society's Freedom Mile.

Other registered New York City Landmarks include the Bowne House, Kingsland Homestead, Old Quaker Meeting House (1694), Flushing High School, St. George's Church (1854), the Lewis H. Latimer House, the former RKO Keith's movie theater, the United States Post Office on Main Street.The Queens Botanical Garden on Main Street has been in operation continuously since its opening as an exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair. The Botanical Garden carries on Flushing's nearly three centuries long horticultural tradition, dating back to its once famed tree nurseries and seed farms.

The area is hone to the NYPD's 109th Precinct house and the FDNY's Engine Co.273 & Ladder Co. 129 known as "the Mouse House" & the FDNY Emergency Medical Service's Station 52.


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