The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which some thirty residents of the small settlement at Flushing requested an exemption to his b
Scan of the original petition of 1657
John Bowne House on 16 May 2023
FoxOaksStone engraved side
Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central part of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. Downtown Flushing is a m
Aerial view of the neighborhood
The intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue
Old Flushing Burial Ground, used in the 17th and 18th centuries, now a park
View of Flushing, John Bowne House, 1825