Flushing
Flushing is home of LaGuardia Airport and the biggest Chinatown in the East coast. Major League Baseball team New York Mets' home Citi Field (former Shea) is located along the #7 train as well as U.S. Open's USTA Billie Jean National Tennis Center where the best tennis players from around the world come to compete every September.
Flushing is situated in the heart of Northern Queens in Community District 7. With more than half of its residents from Asia or of Asian descent, Flushing is a major Asian commercial and cultural center on the East Coast. Flushing is becoming even more diverse. Recent new Americans from Central and South America have joined longtime residents of eastern European descent and a small African-American community that has been in Flushing for generations.
Main Street is considered Downtown Flushing. Several financial institutions have multilingual employees and are clustered within a radius of a few blocks. Flushing's inter-modal accessibility by numerous bus lines, a subway line with local and express service, the Long Island Rail Road and by car makes it one of Queens most significant commercial hubs. The commercial district is internsely crowded with national chain stores, as well as locally-owned shops and restaurants. In addition to Main Street, other retail areas in Flushing are located on Roosevelt Avenue, Kissena Boulevard, and Northern Boulevard, the site of the historic Flushing Town Hall.
NY's Other Chinatown
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Local Organizations
Flush DMA/BID - The Downtown Flushing Transit Hub Business Improvement District (BID) or "Flushing BID" is a not-for-profit organization that was formed in September 2003 by property owners, businesses, residents and community leaders with a stake in the downtown Flushing community.
Kissena Park Civic Association - created to promote, and maintain the civic and general welfare of the residents in the community known as Kissena Park, Borough of Queens; promote and encourage improvements in the community, public and private, affecting the residents of said community; to stimulate the interest of the residents of the community in civic affairs.
West Flushing Civic Association - To exercise, promote and protect the rights, privileges and interests of our members and other residents of Queens, particularly within the boundaries of the West Flushing Civic Association; to foster an awareness and interest in the civic affairs of the community; to develop responsible and participatory citizenship; to inquire into, and seek remedies for, civic abuses; to secure more openness, honesty, and democracy in government, and to be advocates for social and economic justice in society.
Union Turnpike Merchants Association - The Union Turnpike Merchants Association is a not-for-profit organized group of businesses bordering from the The Fame Diner (by St. John's University) to the west and Cunningham Park to the east, dedicated to the financial well being and overall quality of life in its Queens, New York community.
Civic Association of Utopia Estates, Inc - A civic association in Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York City. We represent over 1000 families living within our boundaries of Union Turnpike, to 73rd Ave. and 188th Street to Utopia Parkway.