Flushing

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Flushing is a borough of Queens , a borough of New York City . The Flushing Meadows Park , where the US Open tennis tournament takes place, is well known. Fifty-five percent of Flushing's residents are of East Asian descent, particularly from the Republic of China (Taiwan) , the People's Republic of China, and Korea . The district is the largest Chinatown in the New York area .

Attractions

The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Park.

Worth mentioning are the Queens Theater, the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Museum of Art, the Queens Botanical Garden and the Queens Zoo.

From the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Park , the Unisphere , a kind of giant globe, and the New York State Pavilion, which has been abandoned since the World's Fair, have been preserved. The other buildings were dismantled after no new purpose was found.

The historic buildings include the Flushing Friends Meeting House, built in 1694, and St. George's Church, completed in 1854.

Sports

Arthur Ashe Stadium during the US Open

One of the largest sports facilities in Flushing is the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center , the US national tennis center. The fourth Grand Slam tennis tournament , the US Open , takes place here every year. The Arthur Ashe Stadium is the landmark of the facility and the largest pure tennis stadium in the world.

Another great sports facility is Citi Field . It has been the home of the New York Mets baseball team since 2009 and replaces Shea Stadium .

The international three- band tournament Sang Lee International Open (until 2008) and Verhoeven Open (since 2012) have been held in the Carom Café since 2005 .

education

Queens College

The main educational institutions are Queens College , a senior college of the City University of New York , which has existed since the 1920s , and the CUNY School of Law , which opened in 1983 .

Flushing public schools include John Bowne High School, Robert F. Kennedy High School, Flushing High School, and Townsend Harris High School. A private school is the Holy Cross High School.

The largest library is the Queens Borough Public Library.

Sons and daughters of the district

Web links

Commons : Flushing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.biography.com/filmmaker/martin-scorsese , https://web.archive.org/web/20120210213146/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/110533/Martin-Scorsese/biography ,

Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′  N , 73 ° 49 ′  W