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Downtown Flushing is the commercial and transit core of Flushing, Queens, in Queens Community District 7. It is roughly bounded by Northern Boulevard to the north, Parsons Boulevard to the east, 45th Avenue and Sanford Avenue to the south, and Flushing Creek (the Van Wyck Expressway) to the west, centered on Main Street at Roosevelt Avenue. Its ZIP codes are 11354, covering downtown and western Murray Hill, 11355, covering south Flushing including Queensboro Hill and Waldheim, and 11358, covering eastern Murray Hill and Broadway–Flushing; ZIP codes 11356 and 11357 cover only small parts of northern Flushing and Linden Hill. The core is a dense, high-rise, mixed-use district of offices, retail, markets, and malls beside century-old churches and historic sites. Wikipedia describes downtown Flushing as the fourth-largest central business district in New York City, and the Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue intersection as the third-busiest intersection in the city, behind Times Square and Herald Square. Main Street is the north–south spine and Roosevelt Avenue the east–west spine; Kissena Boulevard runs southeast, Northern Boulevard (NY 25A, formerly Broadway) is the northern edge artery, Union Street was Koreatown’s original corridor between 35th and 41st Avenues, and College Point Boulevard is the western edge corridor. Malls in and adjacent to the core include New World Mall, Queens Crossing, One Fulton Square, The Shops at SkyView Center, Flushing Commons, and Tangram. The NYPD’s 109th Precinct, at 37-05 Union Street, patrols Flushing, College Point, and Whitestone.

Flushing was established on October 10, 1645, on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek under a charter of the Dutch West India Company, named Vlissingen after the Dutch city of Vlissingen; the charter allowed freedom of religion. On December 27, 1657, the inhabitants approved the Flushing Remonstrance, and farmer John Bowne, who held Quaker meetings in his home, was arrested and deported to Holland before persuading the Dutch West India Company to allow Quakers and others to worship freely. In the 18th century, Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America, run by the Prince, Bloodgood, and Parsons families, and their trees supplied the Greensward Project, now Central Park. The Village of Flushing was incorporated on April 15, 1837, and in 1898 the Town of Flushing consolidated into the City of New York to form the Borough of Queens. Transit transformed the area between 1909 and 1928, with the Queensboro Bridge in 1909, Penn Station in 1910, Broadway widened and renamed Northern Boulevard, the Roosevelt Avenue Bridge in 1927, and the Main Street subway terminal on January 21, 1928. From the 1970s, immigration from Taiwan, then South Korea, then Fuzhounese and Wenzhounese waves made Flushing Chinatown one of the largest and fastest-growing Chinatowns in the world, centered on Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue and expanding southeast along Kissena Boulevard and north beyond Northern Boulevard. In the 2010 Census, Flushing’s population was 72,008, up 3.8% from 69,362 in 2000, across 853.06 acres.

Well-known places in Flushing include:

• Flushing Town Hall, at 137-35 Northern Boulevard at Linden Place, built in 1862, now home to the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, with a 308-seat concert hall and theater, a gallery, and a garden; a New York City landmark
• John Bowne House, at 37-01 Bowne Street, built about 1661, the oldest building in Queens according to the Historic House Trust and Wikipedia, a museum since 1947, a New York City landmark in 1966 and National Register-listed in 1977
• Old Quaker Meeting House, on Northern Boulevard, built in 1694, across Northern Boulevard from Town Hall
• Queens Public Library, Flushing (Central) branch, at 41-17 Main Street; Flushing established a library in 1858, the oldest in Queens County
• Queens Botanical Garden, at 43-50 Main Street, in Flushing south of the downtown core, 39 acres between College Point Boulevard and Main Street, in operation continuously since opening as a “Gardens on Parade” exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, at its current location since 1963
• St. George’s Episcopal Church, a New York City landmark in 2000
• Lewis H. Latimer House, at 34-41 137th Street at Leavitt Street, a Queen Anne-style home built about 1888, home of inventor Lewis Howard Latimer from 1903 to 1928, now a museum, a New York City landmark in 1995
• Flushing High School, at 35-01 Union Street, a New York City landmark in 1991 and National Register-listed
• RKO Keith’s Theater lobby, at 135-35 Northern Boulevard, a historic theater lobby, a New York City landmark in 1984
• Bowne Park, 11 acres, the former estate of Mayor Walter Bowne
• Flushing Fields, a 10-acre greenbelt and the Flushing High School home field