10 Facts About Downtown Flushing

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

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

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

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

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Many historical references to Downtown Flushing are to this town, bounded from Newtown on the west by Downtown Flushing Creek, from Jamaica on the south by the "hills"—that is, the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, Downtown Flushing's Chinatown has grown rapidly enough to become the largest Chinatown outside Asia.

The Downtown Flushing Chinatown has surpassed the original Manhattan Chinatown in size.

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

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