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Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City.
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Flushing Bay is a tidal embayment in New York City. It is...
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May 14, 2024 · Flushing, northern section of the borough of Queens, New York City, U.S., at the head of Flushing Bay (East River). Settled in 1645 by English Nonconformists (who had probably been living at Vlissingen [Flushing], Holland), it became a Quaker centre under the leadership of John Bowne.
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History. Culture. Economy. Demographics. Historical Flushing. While the earliest inhabitants of Flushing were the Algonquin-speaking Matinecock Indians, the first Europeans to settle were the Dutch, who arrived in 1628, under the Dutch West India Company.
English colonial history. In 1664, the English took control of New Amsterdam, ending Dutch control of the colony, and renamed it the Province of New York. When Queens County was established in 1683, the “Town of Flushing” was one of the original five towns which comprised the county.
May 2, 2008 · The History Of Flushing. Located a couple blocks east of where Main Street is today, on modern-day Bowne Street, there was a small settlement of English farmhouses – this community, eventually called Flushing (an English bastardization of the name of a Netherlands town called Vlissingen). Living there before the English settles, and before ...
Broadway–Flushing is a historic district and residential subsection of Flushing, Queens, New York City. The neighborhood comprises approximately 2,300 homes.
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