Flushing is the neighborhood located in northern part of Queens, New York. It is not a very diverse neighborhood. Flushing is a very residential and commercial area. For this paper I will be providing information based on my observations of neighborhood of flushing. I will be visiting one of the most occupied neighborhood in flushing, which is Main Street. I look forward to learn and explore this neighborhood through my two visits at different days of the week and at different times.
According to city data, the number of population that exists in flushing is 24,889. City data also states that most of the populations that resides in flushing neighborhood is of Asians Chinese. Second most is the Hispanics, then whites and then rest of them are blacks and others. Most of the flushing neighborhood consists Asian Chinese. According to an article “Remember The Main” based on the history of Main Street flushing at frogotton-ny.com the writer states, “From Historic Map Works, which has a wealth of …show more content…
In 1909 Queens’s streets had not yet been numbered. Because of Flushing’s history as a center of the wholesale plant business, with acres and acres given over to plant nurseries (George Washington was a customer in the 1780s) many of Flushing’s streets and roads still carry plant names, especially in the town center’s southern reaches. North of the Long Island Rail Road, though, numbering was done in the 1920s, and the street names gave way. Here, Washington Street became 37th Avenue; Lincoln became 38th; Locust, 39th, and so forth. When the IRT Flushing Line was run out to Flushing in
According to city data, the number of population that exists in flushing is 24,889. City data also states that most of the populations that resides in flushing neighborhood is of Asians Chinese. Second most is the Hispanics, then whites and then rest of them are blacks and others. Most of the flushing neighborhood consists Asian Chinese. According to an article “Remember The Main” based on the history of Main Street flushing at frogotton-ny.com the writer states, “From Historic Map Works, which has a wealth of …show more content…
In 1909 Queens’s streets had not yet been numbered. Because of Flushing’s history as a center of the wholesale plant business, with acres and acres given over to plant nurseries (George Washington was a customer in the 1780s) many of Flushing’s streets and roads still carry plant names, especially in the town center’s southern reaches. North of the Long Island Rail Road, though, numbering was done in the 1920s, and the street names gave way. Here, Washington Street became 37th Avenue; Lincoln became 38th; Locust, 39th, and so forth. When the IRT Flushing Line was run out to Flushing in