Dual Ethnic Landscape

For my ethnic landscape I chose Flushing in Queens, New York City because I am very familiar with the area and I believe it covers more than one of the different ethnic landscape types. Now although Flushing is technically a town, that can be misleading to the actual size and diversity of ethnic landscapes. Flushing is home to the largest Chinatown in New York City and its Asian residents account for over half of the population. Ethnic markers are all over Flushing Main Street and this area would be classified under the "Ersatz"or ethnic landscape. Many of the building signs are in Chinese or Korean and newspapers are sold in the same languages. Restaurants and other establishments cater to the largest Asian population in the area. What I believe separates this Chinatown from the one in Manhattan is the focus on tourism. In Flushing their is not that feeling of tourism. (Maybe because tourists think the only thing in NYC is Manhattan). (A few images to show Flushing's Main Street)

In the same "town" of Flushing, a large Italian, Greek, and Irish population have maintained what I would call the Old World landscape with its mixture of churches and houses. Its also home to a large amount of restaurants and businesses that cater to its ethnic population. This large European population has maintained some of the older more classical looks of their home countries. Flushing, named after the Dutch village Vlissingen was founded in 1645 and was the first permanent settlement in Queens. In 1657 the Flushing Remonstrance was issued, which defied Peter Stuyvesant's demand to expel Quakers, Jews, and other religious groups. Flushing was also the first town in the western hemisphere to grant religious freedom to its residents. Maybe this explains why there are over 200 places of worship in a 6.5 square kilometer range.

I think this shows that an area can be made up of more than one type of ethnic landscape, because Flushing definitely represents sort of a hybrid between two types.