Flushing, Queens, New York
Flushing is a section of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York.
Interesting facts
- Actress Fran Drescher and porn star Ron Jeremy were both born in Flushing. A local celebrity, news reporter Lewis Dodd, resides in Flushing.
- Archie Bunker, the fictional character from the 1970s American television sitcom All in the Family, attended Flushing High School.
North Flushing is affectionately called "Blade Runner meets Charles Dickens" due to the dense crowding and neon lights around Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue.
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It's also called Little China/Korea/India, sometimes in a derivise tone, by residents in south Flushing (after the Long Island Expressway/Horace Harding Expressway to Main Street and Queens Boulevard)
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