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To: grimalkin

in FLUSHING, NEW YORK??

The jokes just write themselves.


14 posted on 07/22/2016 11:16:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

There is a great “Chinatown” in Flushing.


21 posted on 07/22/2016 11:26:44 AM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It was named after the town Vlissingen by Dutch settlers. Vlissingen became Vlissing, which was Anglicized to Flushing.


36 posted on 07/22/2016 12:28:29 PM PDT by map
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