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Flushing

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Flushing former village, now in N Queens borough of New York City, SE N.Y.; chartered 1645, inc. into Greater New York City with Queens in 1898. Although chiefly residential, Flushing has gained importance as a trading and manufacturing center. It was chartered (as Vlissingen) by the Dutch West India Company to English settlers, who anglicized the name. It is the seat of Queens College of the City Univ. of New York and the Queens Botanical Gardens. The Bowne House (1661) and the Quaker meetinghouse (c.1696) are landmarks of the colonial period. Flushing Meadow (now a park) was the site of two... Read more
Flushing
...New York, U.S. Located at the head of Flushing Bay in the East River , it was settled...until it was absorbed by Queens in 1898. Flushing Meadow–Corona Park was the site...the temporary headquarters for the UN. Flushing is the scene of the U.S. Open tennis... Read more
Flushing
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