I spent a lot of time in Flushing growing up. Main St and Roosevelt Ave, The RKO Keith's on Northern Blvd. 7 Train into Manhattan. It's changed a lot in the last fifty years. The Korean's moving in during the late eighties and now it's Chinatown. Go figure
Absolutely CNote. You said it right. That area of the city, North Queens, has changed tremendously over the years.
What started out back in the early 1980s as a small influx of Chinese immigrants settling around Main Street in Flushing has exploded in population. Asian nationals, of all types, now permeate the entire area from Main Street, all the way up Northern Boulevard, past Bayside, into Little Neck. And from Main Street running for miles under Roosevelt Avenue through Corona, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Woodside, Sunnyside, etc.
That area has become a bigger Chinatown than the "original" Chinatown in Downtown Manhattan.
Its literally unrecognizable to "old" Flushing.
