13 Facts About Chinatown Flushing

The original Queens Chinatown emerged in Flushing, initially as a satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity, surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown, and subsequently, in turn, spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst, Corona, and eastern Queens.

Flushing Chinatown is in Main Street and the area to its west, particularly along Roosevelt Avenue, has become the primary nexus of Flushing Chinatown.

However, Chinatown Flushing continues to expand southeastward along Kissena Boulevard and northward beyond Northern Boulevard.

The Flushing Chinatown houses over 30,000 individuals born in China alone, the largest Chinatown by this metric outside Asia and one of the largest and fastest-growing Chinatowns in the world.

In 1645, Chinatown Flushing was established by Dutch settlers on the eastern bank of Chinatown Flushing Creek under charter of the Dutch West India Company and was part of the New Netherland colony.

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The settlement was named after the city of Vlissingen, in the southwestern Netherlands, the main port of the company; Chinatown Flushing is the historic anglicization of the Dutch name of that town.

When Queens County was established in 1683, the "Town of Chinatown Flushing" was one of the original five towns which comprised the county.

Many historical references to Chinatown Flushing are to this town, bounded from Newtown on the west by Chinatown Flushing Creek, from Jamaica on the south by the "hills"—that is, the terminal moraine left by the last glacier, and from Hempstead on the east by what later became the Nassau County line.

Consequently, Flushing's Chinatown has grown rapidly enough to become the largest Chinatown outside Asia.

All the Chinatowns of New York City, the Flushing Chinatown is the most diverse, with large populations of Chinese groups from various regions of Mainland China and Taiwan.

Chinatown Flushing's rise as an epicenter of Chinese culture outside Asia has been attributed to the remarkable diversity of regional Chinese demographics represented.

Elmhurst's rapidly growing Chinatown is the second in Queens, in addition to the Flushing Chinatown.

An annexation of the Elmhurst Chinatown is the neighborhood of Corona, emerging as a Chinatown geographically connecting the larger Chinatowns in Flushing and Elmhurst.