About Us
The Flushing Willets Point Corona Local Development Corporation is an organization comprised of private and public sector stakeholders that seek to develop a comprehensive set of economic development goals for the Greater Flushing—Willets Point—Corona area of north-central Queens.
Objectives:
- To advocate new economic development initiatives in Flushing, including area-wide parking and traffic solutions, rezoning opportunities, the expansion of affordable housing, and infrastructure improvements focusing on the Transit Authority and Long Island Railroad.
- To conduct outreach and obtain support for economic initiatives in the redevelopment of Willets Point, focusing on business retention and relocation, infrastructure development, and a comprehensive rezoning.
- To propose and advocate for improvements to build more significant linkages between Corona, Willets Point, and the greater Flushing area.
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History
Important Dates
1683
Queens County included five towns: Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, Hempstead, and Oyster Bay.
1784
The Town of North Hempstead secedes from the Town of Hempstead and Queens, and then there are six towns (Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, North Hempstead, Hempstead, and Oyster Bay).
1813
The Village of Flushing is incorporated with the Town of Flushing.
1814
The Village of Jamaica is incorporated within the Town of Jamaica.
1839
The Village of Astoria is incorporated within the Town of Newtown.
1853
The Village of Hempstead is incorporated within the Town of Hempstead.
1867
The Village of College Point is incorporated within the Town of Flushing.
1868
The Village of Whitestone is incorporated within the Town of Flushing.
1870
The City of Long Island City (which includes the Village of Astoria and parts or all of the adjacent hamlets) seceded from and became independent of the Town of Newtown, and Queens County then had one city (Long Island City) and six towns (Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, North Hempstead, Hempstead, and Oyster Bay).
1883
The Village of Sea Cliff is incorporated within the Town of Oyster Bay. In 1886, the Lloyd's Neck peninsula in the Town of Oyster Bay was transferred (excluding riparian rights) to the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County.
1888
The Village of Far Rockaway is incorporated within the Town of Hempstead.
1892
The Village of Freeport is incorporated within the Town of Hempstead.
1893
The Village of Rockville Centre was incorporated within the Town in 1893.
1894
The Village of Richmond Hill is incorporated within the Town of Jamaica.
1897
The Village of Lawrence and the Village of Rockaway Beach are incorporated within the Town of Hempstead.
1898
The western quarter of Queens County (the City of Long Island City, the Towns of Newtown, Flushing, and Jamaica, and the Rockaway peninsula of the Town of Hempstead) is annexed by the new New York City. The eastern three-quarters (the Towns of North Hempstead, Hempstead, and Oyster Bay) remained part of Queens County but is not part of New York City. Thus, for one year, part of Queens County is in New York City, and part is not in New York City.
1899
The eastern three-quarters of Queens County (the Towns of North Hempstead, Hempstead, and Oyster Bay) seceded from, became independent of Queens County, and formed Nassau County.
1905
Long Island Railroad runs through Queens
1909
Queensboro Bridge built
1915
New York City subways reach north and south Queens
1936
Triborough Bridge unites Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens
1939
LaGuardia Airport opens
1939-1940
The World's Fair puts Queens on the map.
The Borough of Queens is a massive urban complex with over two million people.
The original Native American inhabitants gave way to the Dutch and English in the early 17th century, leaving little behind except the names of several places.
NetherlandThe Dutch founded the colony of New Netherland from 1609 to 1624, with its center at the southern tip of Manhattan. They built farms in Brooklyn and settled on the northwestern shore of Long Island along the East River. The first settlement, known today as Queens, appeared sometime after 1637 in Astoria, Hunters Point, and Dutch Kills.
English settlements began in the 1640s when English from New England took up lands in Maspeth. After Indian attacks drove out these settlers, a more robust settlement began inland at Newtown around 1652 (Elmhurst today). The English started Flushing in 1645 and Jamaica in 1656, but the Dutch ruling authorities gave these places Dutch names and forms of government. With Dutch farmers from Brooklyn settling among the English, "Queens" was a place of diverse cultural traditions. In 1683, years after the British capture of New Netherlands, the English government divided the province of New York (including Long Island) into twelve counties. These included Albany, Cornwall, Dukes, Dutchess, Kings, New York, Orange, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Ulster, and Westchester.
For more than 200 years after that, Queens existed as a vast territory comprising not only the present-day area of Queens but also what is now called Nassau County. The western part of Queens County was divided into three units or "towns" named Newtown, Flushing, and Jamaica.
The towns were separated by terrain features, including the marshland between Newtown and Flushing and the excellent moraine ridge between these northern towns and Jamaica to the south. Outside the small villages within these "towns," people farmed the land. The first census in 1790 recorded just over 5,000 inhabitants in what is today Queens.
Battle of Long IslandThe American Revolution disrupted the lives of every villager and farmer and divided neighbors against one another. Except in Newtown, the majority favored the British, whose army defeated the American forces under George Washington at the Battle of Long Island (Brooklyn) in 1776. That defeat made present-day Queens's area a nearly secure base for British troops. Queens endured a seven-year occupation, at the end of which many pro-British Queens residents fled.
From the British withdrawal in 1783 until the 1830s, Queens continued as an area of farms and villages. The county government was located in Mineola (present-day Nassau County), and the population grew little. However, in the opening decades of the nineteenth century, New York City began to grow at an extraordinary pace and, together with Brooklyn, exerted increasing influence over Queens.
Queens began to absorb an ever-increasing flood of new settlers. Urbanizing forces became apparent in the 1830s, and in 1839 Astoria became the first village to be officially founded within Queens since the 17th century. In 1848, Ravenswood along the East River began as a fashionable residential area and established the "Gold Coast" tradition that moved eastward through parts of Flushing, Malba, Bayside, Douglaston, and beyond.
In the 1850s, land speculators bought farms to convert to village lots. Maspeth, Corona, Long Island City (Hunters Point area), and Winfield all started between 1852 and 1854. New Yorkers and Brooklynites traveled to western Queens to visit the immense cemeteries forced upon the county by New York's 1848 "health" ban on burial grounds from lower Manhattan. Also, manufacturers needing rural settings within reach of New York City built factories in areas such as Whitestone, Woodhaven, and College Point.
Flushing JournalWaves of Irish and German immigration reached Queens during the mid-nineteenth century. The Irish settled in Astoria and, to a lesser degree, Jamaica and Flushing. Many Germans entered Queens by way of Brooklyn via Metropolitan and Myrtle Avenues, making Middle Village (which had been English) almost wholly German by 1860.
At the start of the Civil War, Queens had a population of just over 30,000. During the quarter century that followed the war, the initial urbanization of western Queens was largely completed, and Glendale, Richmond Hill, and Queens Village all got their start. In the early 1870s, piano maker William Steinway began production in East Astoria, creating a manufacturing village out of farmlands. Following the economic depression of the mid-1870s, Ridgewood boomed as a residential community when the Brooklyn City Railroad built its car barns there in 1881. Also, the population flow out of Brooklyn led to the creation of Ozone Park in 1882 and Morris Park in 1884.
In other parts of Queens, growth could have been better. Some large farms in Bayside were converted to building lots in 1872. and south Flushing was subdivided the following year. In 1885, Population growth became more impressive compared to the prior decades of the century, expanding from 45,468 in 1870 to 56,559 in 1880 and 87,050 in 1890.
Willets Point Engineers Football teamThe last decade of the 1800s saw the critical action of the New York State legislature establishing the Greater City of New York. By this act, the state consolidated Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx, and the present-day area of Queens into a single city of five boroughs (1898). However, the establishment of Queens as a borough did not create a "Queens" identity. The area still had many centers with diverse local traditions; much of it was still farmland and open country. The new "Queens County," made coterminous with the borough, was also severed from its former eastern territory, which became Nassau County.
During the twentieth century, there developed some consciousness of Queens as an entity in its own right, but it never would it displace the residents' sense of being, first and foremost, from Maspeth or Howard Beach or some other place.
The first decade of the 20th century brought continued population growth, with much of it traceable to the sudden expansion of rapid transit into Queens.
Queensboro Bridge
When the Pennsylvania Railroad purchased the Long Island Rail Road in 1900, electrified it through Queens in 1905-1908, and opened the Penn Tunnels under the East River in 1910, it brought nearly the entire borough of Queens within the suburban commuting zone of Manhattan. Even more crucial to development was the opening of the Queensboro Bridge in 1909. This span ended the isolation of the borough's road system at precisely the time when automobile use was underway in the United States.
A new road system grew up to accommodate the traffic, and Queens Boulevard was laid out as the main arterial highway of the new borough. From 1915, much of northern and southwestern Queens came within reach of the New York City subway system. Service reached Hunters Point in 1915 and Astoria in 1917. Another branch extended along Queens Boulevard and the newly created Roosevelt Avenue, reaching Corona in 1917 and Flushing in 1928.
In southern Queens, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company built an elevated line along Liberty Avenue through Ozone Park and Woodhaven to Richmond Hill in 1915 and along Jamaica Avenue through Woodhaven and Richmond Hill to Jamaica a few years later. These transportation improvements prompted new, explosive growth. During the 1920s, Queens rocketed from 469,000 to more than a million.
1939 World's FairThe opening of the Triborough Bridge and Grand Central Parkway in 1936 and that of LaGuardia Airport in 1939 contributed further to Queens' metropolitan character. The World's Fair of 1939-1940 put the borough on the national map for the first time and brought about the elimination of the colossal Corona dumps and the building of the Whitestone Bridge. The fair site later became Flushing Meadows Park (more recently renamed Flushing Meadows-Corona Park).
After World War II, growth surged again, and city-block-sized garden apartments sprouted in many areas. Remaining tracts of land in northeastern Queens were then devoted to constructing single-family and attached housing. By the early 1960s, much of central Flushing, once celebrated for its country-squire atmosphere, was home to multi-story apartment buildings, which extended block after block along many streets.
Only one farm survives as a historical restoration in the Queens of today. Though now a physically mature urban territory, Queens is also an area of intense social dynamism. It has become a multiethnic place: the home of Greeks, Italians, Blacks, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Colombians, Asian Indians, Puerto Ricans, Israelis, and still other groups. It is today the most culturally diverse community in the United States of America.
Flushing is a vibrant community that is always "on the move." Home to many, it is also a center of commerce and transportation and plays a vital role within the Queens and, more significantly, New York communities.
The Flushing-Willets Point-Corona LDC is dedicated to facilitating development projects that will help Flushing become an even more exciting commercial and residential center. Initiatives pursued here must be synergistic with others undertaken in the neighboring communities of Willets Point and Corona. Two plans that meet these criteria and hold particular promise are those for redevelopment along the Flushing riverfront and modernization of the area between the #7 Subway station (at Roosevelt Ave.) and the Long Island Railroad station (at Main Street). Associated changes to the street system and infrastructure will also be integral to the overall revitalization and ensure that Flushing changes are accessible to its neighbors.
Although not an LDC project, another exciting and related project under the direction of the NYC Economic Development Corporation is the creation of a new "Flushing Commons." This will rise on city-owned property and provide residential and commercial space (see below).
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The Flushing Riverfront Project will create a Special District between Northern Blvd and Roosevelt Ave and College Point Blvd. and the Flushing River. This area will be developed following the goals of the Flushing Framework and Waterfront Access Plans contained in the current zoning. Other zoning modifications will increase the density of residential and commercial uses while creating smaller, finely-grained urban blocks appropriate to the scale of downtown Flushing.
The Special District will also be home to unique public space with extended pedestrian access to the Flushing River. A waterfront esplanade and riverside parks will be excellent outdoor resources for the community, and a new pedestrian bridge joining Flushing with the peninsula of Willets Point will provide access to future Willets Point and Corona residents.
Contacts
Anne Marie Boranian
Administrator
"I joined the LDC in March 2007. My primary role is ensuring the office functions as efficiently as possible. We are a small team led by Claire Shulman, the LDC President and CEO. Under Claire's direction, I am responsible for bookkeeping, general office management, business insurance, client business filings, and membership. Additionally, I assist in coordinating intergovernmental meetings to advance the LDC's Master Plan and Vision Statement. I also inform all affected elected officials of our goals and accomplishments."
Nicholas Roberts
Project Manager
Nick joined the LDC as a Project Manager in July 2008. In this role, Nick works with Anne Marie and the LDC Board to coordinate the LDC's efforts in Willets Point and the eastern side of the Flushing River. Since the successful City Council vote on Willets Point in November, Nick has been concentrating on the LDC's Flushing Vision Statement and potential funding opportunities, such as the Brownfield Opportunity Area grant. Nick grew up in New York City and graduated from Brown University in 2005.