163-01/19 Horace Harding Expressway Flushing, NY 11365 ...

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Interesting Flushing Facts …
• The great ash heap/valley of ashes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
was spruced up for the 1939 World's Fair and is now Flushing Meadows-
Corona Park.
• The 1939 New York World’s Fair was held in Flushing Meadows-Corona
Park, the New York City Pavilion from that event now houses the Queens
Museum of Art. The building was temporarily the home of the United Nations
and is where the State of Israel was voted into existence in 1947.
• Two New York City Police Department officers were killed examining a
bomb they removed from the British Pavilion on July 4, 1940.
• The 1964 New York World’s Fair was held in Flushing Meadows Park;
remnants include the Unisphere and Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion.
• Archie Bunker, the fictional character from the 1970s American television
sitcom All in the Family, attended Flushing High School.
• Betty Suarez of Ugly Betty attended Queens College in Flushing, as did reallife
comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Fran Drescher, and composer
Marvin Hamlisch.
• The rock band KISS first played at the Coventry Club on Queens Boulevard in
1973, and is said to have derived its name from "Kissena," one of Flushing's
major streets.
• North Flushing, the area nearest to Bayside and Whitestone is an area of single
family homes near Bowne Park, many of which are quite exquisite. This area is
located between 29th Avenue and 35th Avenue, and 155st and 164th Streets. It
has recently been granted landmark status.
• Flushing's Waldheim area is known for its beautiful, individually crafted
homes. Its 110 original houses made up Queens' first estate subdivision.
• The disk-topped towers of Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion from the
1964-65 fair were featured in the movie Men In Black as the "spaceship" in
which the alien attempted to escape.