Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . u got nature byleaning out of a window and twisting yourneck to get a glimpse of the sky. I mighthave been there yet, for all that, if businesshad not taken me one noon to a suburbantown above Manhattan. I stepped off thetrain and saw grassy lawns, leafy trees,charming homes and little bevys of schoolgirls in white dresses, hatless, laughing andplayful and not, as in New York, scurryingtimidly for fear of the brazen mashers andloafers that lin
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . u got nature byleaning out of a window and twisting yourneck to get a glimpse of the sky. I mighthave been there yet, for all that, if businesshad not taken me one noon to a suburbantown above Manhattan. I stepped off thetrain and saw grassy lawns, leafy trees,charming homes and little bevys of schoolgirls in white dresses, hatless, laughing andplayful and not, as in New York, scurryingtimidly for fear of the brazen mashers andloafers that lined the streets. My soul ex-panded, I can tell you, and I drew a deepbreath. I knew then what was the differencebetween living and merely being alive. Thosewho live in places like Flushing do have room to live in. I was going to move to that above-New York village at once, butwhen I spoke to my friends they said Wow! I discovered what thatmeant. High rents, high costs of everything, a place for the extrava-gant and the fashion apes only. Then I began visiting suburbs. Youknow what most of them are—flat, imitation streets, rows of cheap. 1,000 Years Old Oak inMr. Butlers Yard Bowne Avenue From Corner of Sanford Avenue 8 FLUSHING AND VICINITY houses all alike, as much character as the bottom of a pie pan. Andthen I happened on Flushing! The day I first visited Flushing I rented a house here. Some yearslater I bought one. I have lived here a dozen years or more and I neverwant to live elsewhere. Why? Flushing, more than most towns around New York, has is a complete town in itself. When I live in Flushing I live in a townwith a history and an inheritance of memories and meanings, not in amere collection of houses. Flushing is no mushroom, no real estatedevelopers suburb. It was settled by the English a few weeks after theysettled on Man-hattan. It has al-ways been a townwith has familiesthat came withthe first Englishsettlers, and thatcame with
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