Research From the New York Time Historical

FERRETTI, FRED. "Flushing: A New Center For Asian Markets And Food" New York Times October 13, 1983: p. C1.

This is a very old news, gets us back to 1983. By then Flushing is already the a center of Asian businesses in Queens. “The Flushing area, in particular Main Street, its commercial spine, and such adjacent streets as Northern and Kissena Boulevards and Union and Prince Streets, has become an Asian microcosm. It is still another of the city’s neighborhoods in transition, with a recognizable and sizable Korean-Chinese- Japanese-Indian Profile.” All Asians lives in New York City and Long island travel miles to Flushing on weekends just for some shopping. Also those restaurants are one big attraction for them. “The growing importance of Main Street in Flushing as an Asian food center now brings weekend shoppers by car from Long Island and Westchester for their miso, brown rice, salted codfish roe, fresh octopus, dried red dates, seaweed, bamboo shoots and dried mussels, abalone and ginseng root.” In that time Flushing just starts to turn to another Chinatown in New York City. There are more Koreans here at Flushing in any other single place in America.



DEUTSCH, CLAUDIA. "Links with Taipei help draw many Asians to Flushing :Commercial Property/Flushing's Chinatown A Polyglot Community Attracts Shops and Business". New York Times 1994, October 2: p. R1.

This news was taking place in 1994, Flushing. Unlike the Chinatown in Manhattan has the most Cantonese-speaking Chinese, Flushing is more like a center for Mandarin-speakers from Taiwan and main land China. “…or the growing number of Koreans and Asian Indians who have moved to Queens, are as likely to go to Flushing, around Roosevelt Avenue and Main Street, as to Mott or Canal Streets.” People may not know this, but in Taiwan they refer to Flushing as Little Taipei. That is also one of the reasons for so many Asian Businesses and restaurants here in Flushing have a Taiwanese boss or landlord. There are also different purposes for the Manhattan Chinatown and the Flushing Chinatown. “Manhattan Chinatown attracts a great many tourists on weekends…”. “Flushing Chinatown has a narrower focus and reach, but it attracts hordes of outsiders nonetheless. “