About the Whitestone, Flushing, Bayside, Fresh Meadows, and College Point, New York Area
Queens, New York is the most ethnically diverse 115 square miles on earth. The 7 subway line has been dubbed The International Express and has been designated a National Millennium Trail for its representation of the immigrant experience. In addition to Greek Astoria, Jackson Heights has a fantastic Little India, with great restaurants, food markets, and shopping, and Peruvians swear this is where you can get the only decent grilled chicken outside of Lima. Flushing has a large Chinese and Korean population and is home to the 1862 Romanesque Revival, Flushing Town Hall, where Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts organizes a variety of art exhibits and jazz and classical music performances throughout the year. Italians, Japanese, Colombians, Asian Indians, Puerto Ricans, Israelis, Maltese, and many other groups add exciting diversity and flavor to Queens.
FLUSHING
Flushing is a section of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. Before the consolidation of New York City in 1898, Flushing was a town in Queens County. Today, it is a thriving business and residential area, with large Chinese and Korean communities. The Chinese community in Flushing is in fact now the largest in the New York metropolitan area, having surpassed Manhattan's Chinatown several years ago. Flushing is one of the most prominent and flourishing neighborhoods of Queens, along with Jamaica, The Rockaways, Bayside and Long Island City.
Flushing now has many new residential and commercial buildings and is an area that is experiencing rapid development, including many innovative architectural designs. Primary streets in Flushing include: Main Street, Roosevelt Avenue, Northern Boulevard, Prince Street, Parsons Boulevard, Kissena Boulevard, and 164th Street.
BAYSIDE
Bayside is the name of a neighborhood in the Borough of Queens of New York City. It is a mostly suburban neighborhood. The Bayside Long Island Rail Road station is located here, as are a number of churches, a library, and many commercial establishments. Bayside is home to two major New York City high schools, Bayside High School and Benjamin Cardozo High School. It is also home of Queensborough Community College, a branch of the CUNY (City University Of New York) System. It is known for its nursing, music and musical technology programs and state of the art recording studios. Bay Terrace is a community of garden apartments located in the north section of the neighborhood; an adjacent shopping center was named for the community. Bayside is generally a lovely, peaceful neighborhood with a view of the Throgs Neck Bridge that leads to the Bronx. The Coast Guard station at Fort Totten is at the northernmost point of the neighborhood.
WHITESTONE
Whitestone is a neighborhood in north-central Queens (in New York City) located between the East River to the north and Bayside Avenue to the south. This is where our office, Power Realty Inc., is located. It is an ideal location for anyone searching for a scenic and tranquil place to live, where the neighbors are friendly and the surroundings are charming. In the late nineteenth-century many wealthy New Yorkers began building mansions in the area, on what had once been farmland. Rapid development of the area ensued in the 1920s, however, as trolley and train service was expanded into the neighborhood. Although this rail service ended during the Great Depression the right-of-way for it was later used by Robert Moses to help construct the Belt Parkway. Further development came with the building of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge in 1939. Today, Whitestone is a largely middle-class neighborhood comprised mostly of single and multi-family homes, garden apartment complexes and small apartment buildings. This suburban neighborhood was named for the rock at the point where tides met from the East River and Long Island Sound. Well-known residents have included Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence, of which Francis Lewis Park was named after. Residents often flock there to see the beautiful view of the Whitestone Bridge in the evening.
FRESH MEADOWS
Fresh Meadows, is a neighborhood in Northeastern Queens, New York, which is traditionally bordered to the east by Francis Lewis Boulevard, to the south by Union Turnpike, to the north by Kissena Park, and to the west by Fresh Meadow Lane.
Fresh Meadows is also the name of a housing development within the neighborhood, centered along 188th Street. The Fresh Meadows development was constructed in the late 1940's on the site of the Fresh Meadows Country Club and was intended for middle-class residents. It is one of three postwar housing developments constructed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company at that time, the others being Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan and Parkchester in the Bronx.
The Long Island Expressway runs through the neighborhood. Primary streets are 188th Street, Horace Harding Expressway, 73rd Avenue, and Fresh Meadow Lane.
The 107th Precinct of the NYPD covers this neighborhood.
Kissena Park and Cunningham Park are both located adjacent to Fresh Meadows.
Fresh Meadows is also home to St. Francis Preparatory School, the largest Catholic high school in the United States with a incomparable reputation for excellence. Francis Lewis High School, P.S. 26 (Rufus King school), and J.H.S. 216 (George J. Ryan Junior High) are other notable schools within its precincts.