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Jun 19, 2006 · The Tisdale house illegally raised by a local wrecking co in 1986, Miss Tisdale had every intention of turning it into a Flushing Queens museum but was swindled by her attorney after her death. She was a fine person, i knew her well, shared wonderful history with me over the years in that fine old mansion.
Jan 14, 2007 · Queens history pictorial books show a tidy, orderly neighborhood of wide lawns, shade trees, and diverse, variegated architecture built on a two-story-with-attic template; most were built beginning in the first decade of the 1900s by firms such as the Rickert-Finlay Company, which developed properties with strictures requiring lots of a certain size, peaked roofs, and above all, relaxed openness.
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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. [3] [4] Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area, and the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue at its core is the third-busiest in New York ...
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Oct 17, 2010 · In 1909 Queens 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 ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Few areas of the United States have as endured as long as Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood with almost over 375 years of history and an evolving cultural landscape that includes Quakers, trees, Hollywood films, world fairs, and Asian immigrants. In this special on-location episode of the Bowery Boys, Greg and special guest Kieran Gannon explore… Read More
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. In 1639 Governor William Kieft bought the land that became Queens County, and on October 10, 1645 the land that became Flushing was officially founded ...
Mar 23, 2024 · The Flushing Remonstrance (1657) protested the persecution of Quakers and the trial of Bowne. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Flushing was noted for its commercial nurseries. It flourished as a township and then a village until it was absorbed by Queens in 1898. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was the site of the 1939–40 and 1964 ...
