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    Kingsland House

    5.0 (2 reviews)
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    Flushing Airport - Black cellophane sky at midnite

    Flushing Airport

    5.0(1 review)
    1.2 miMalba

    Its hard to find things in New York City which are actually and truly cool. What kinds of things…read moreare genuinely cool? In this name-dropping, get-it-for-me-yesterday, velvet-rope, waiting-list, glam-o-polis? They're very few and far between. But Flushing Airport is definitely one of them. In classic New York style; its utterly forgotten about. New York doesn't understand ghosts. Folks, this is an abandoned airfield. In Queens. Right across from LaGuardia and Rikers. Men once flew Pipers and Cessnas from this tiny little flyspec of an airstrip. It closed due to water-logging and because of a bad aircraft tragedy years ago. And now it just sits here, abandoned, awesome as hell; and no one thinks twice about it. Restricted, unused. Open, undeveloped land in New York. Eerie! Look at these pictures--can you stand it? Crumbling hangars and cracked, flooded runways. Piles of machinery. Creaking, groaning buildings and shattered windows. Overgrown with weeds and bulrushes and rusting equipment and memories. Authenticity. How does no one ever remark on this strange treasure? How can you live in the area and not even regard it with wonder? But the neighborhood's residents are apparently oblivious; and the city government can come up with no new ideas for the site except to re-zone it as commercial land. Or at least, try to. For cripe's sakes--if a BLIMP COMPANY wants to make it their landing pad; LET THEM. How phenomenally cool would it be to see blimps circling over New York again? There should be blimps in the air every day in our skies. Let them land here! Let's have some magic back in this stupid, boorish, uptight, post 9/11 age!

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    Bowne House Historical Society - Meet the oldest house in Flushing

    Bowne House Historical Society

    5.0(4 reviews)
    0.1 miDowntown Flushing, Flushing

    Worth going out to Flushing for…read more I was the only person on an excellent docent-led tour which lasted approximately 45 minutes. She was well-informed, conversational, and taught me a lot about something that I knew very little about on my arrival. I am a more informed New Yorker because of it. Bowne's house and family history are interesting, complicated, and hopeful - with lessons still (unfortunately) applicable today. Highly recommended.

    John Bowne (1657-1695) was a Peaceful Warrior for Religious Freedoms…read more John Bowne was a English Quaker immigrant. Who came to Flushing in 1661 searching for a place to worship without fear or intimidation. Hi everyone and welcome to historical Flushing New York. Flushing is a very old town indeed. Everywhere you look are towering Oak and pine trees hundreds of years old. Some of the buildings also stretch back into inntiquity. Straight back to our Native American caretakers. My grandmother would tell me the way Flushing was at one time, a different community. With a totally different vibe but still a vibrant diverse community. Flushing during grandmother's time , was complete with Dance halls, restaurants & department stores. But one thing remains constant in Flushing, religious freedom. Flushing was founded by those who were religiously persecuted. Our American ancestors were brave souls who traveled 1000 miles on Wooden Ships put together with hope, spit and tar. This harrowing Journey would take place on vessels without modern conveniences, navigation or guarantee of safe arrival. These huddled masses of religious pioneers came to our country to find a place where they could find their path to "The House of God". To search for a place to live and worship, a land without bigotry, repression, or fear. This was the path that John Bowne traveled. His family came to live in this small wooden house just steps from my own. I would pass this common little structure during is renovations. And learned of its former inhabitants. A tangible station of the Underground Railroad. The John Bowne house is surrounded by beautiful fruit bearing trees and birds that sing as if John and his family still lived here. 9 generations of John Bowne's Family Lived and spread the word of God and religious freedom from under this roof. In 1945 the structure and property were donated to "The Bowne Historical Society." In 1657 The Flushing Remonstrance petitioned Flushing's ruling Dutch government to permit religious freedoms and allow the practice of the Quaker worship. The Flushing Remonstrance petition is believed to be the Cornerstone of our American religious freedoms guaranteed in our Bill of Rights. Wow, who knew? People are allowed to worship in here in the United States in the manner we choose because of the vision and dreams and prayers. That traveled into the heavens from this small humble plot. I very much recommend reading the other reviews posted concerning this site, as they will contain additional information. Thanks again for stopping by folks. My grandmother would always tell me.. "There are many paths to the house of God". JIM D

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    The Spark of Our Nation's Religious Freedoms nurtured Defended & Kept Alive in this House.

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