There are 1,101,686 male residents living in Queens and 1,166,258 female residents. [8], Queens Village was part of an overall housing boom that was spreading east through Queens from New York as people from the city sought the bucolic life afforded by the less-crowded atmosphere of the area.
In addition, several Chinese supermarkets such as Hong Kong Supermarket and New York Supermarket have locations in Flushing. [3], The entirety of Community Board 13, which mainly comprises Queens Village but also includes other areas, had 193,787 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 82.9 years.
It is not to be confused with, Pure Presbyterian Church, located at 142-08 32nd Avenue, near Union Street, Landmarks, museums, and cultural institutions, New York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. Over the years, many new non-Cantonese ethnic Chinese immigrants from different regions and provinces of China started to arrive in New York City and settled in Flushing through word of mouth. When Queens County was established in 1683, the "Town of Flushing" was one of the original five towns which the county comprised.
One in seventeen residents (6%) were unemployed, compared to 8% in Queens and 9% in New York City. 1838, page 381, CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (. Flushing, College Point, and Whitestone are patrolled by the 109th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 37-05 Union Street. likely about a mile west of the present station.
The Asian-American population has expanded markedly in the southern part of Linden Hill in the past decade (as it has throughout Flushing) and the Latino-American population has also grown noticeably. Landmarks remaining from the Dutch period in Flushing include the John Bowne House on Bowne Street and the Old Quaker Meeting House on Northern Boulevard. In 1991, the school moved to Yonkers in Westchester County, New York, before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1992. Today, many of those charming and well-maintained Dutch Colonial and Tudor homes built in Queens Village during the 1920s and 1930s currently continue to attract a diverse population.
[25]:2, As of 2017, the median household income in Community Board 13 was $85,857. [171] It is one of the busiest stations in the New York City Subway system as of 2018[update][172], The Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch also serves Flushing via the following stations:[173]. [79] The Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden is also located in Murray Hill.
For population 25 years and over in Queens: High school or higher: 74.4%; Bachelor's degree or higher: 24.3%; Graduate or professional degree: 9.2%; Unemployed: 7.7%; Mean travel time to work (commute): 41.4 minutes; Education Gini index (Inequality in education) Here: 15.6: New York average: 14.2: 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016. [105] It has been in operation continuously since its opening as an exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair,[106] and has been at its current location since 1963. Public parks and playgrounds in Flushing are supervised by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. [35], Queens Village generally has a similar rate of college-educated residents to the rest of the city as of 2018[update]. 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. The regional food cuisines have led to Flushing being considered the "food mecca" for Chinese regional cuisine outside of Asia. Analytics built by: Location, Inc.