Branch Detailed Info | Queens Library

Free computer access is available at all the libraries.

The East Flushing Community Library has:

2 Adult Public Computers
1 Public Computer located in the Children's room
Each computer may be used for half an hour
Free Internet Access
Microsoft Office Software
Limited Printing
InfolinQ/Internet classes class is offered. Please contact the branch for more details

Queens Library Public Internet Use Policy.

TBD

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International Language Collections at the East Flushing Community Library include:

Chinese
Korean
Greek
Spanish

Special Interest/Noteworthy Collections at the East Flushing Community Library include:

Careers
Graphic Novels
Money Matters
YA Section

What does a Friends Group do?

Friends of Library - East Flushing Chapter. Contact Community Library Manager at (718) 357-6643 or Office of Government and Community Affairs (GCA) at (718) 990-0817 if you are interested in joining.

Child Care / Preschools
Community Board
Community Organizations & Services
Fire Department
Local Hospitals
Local Newspapers

Parks and Playgrounds
Police Department
Post Office
Private / Parochial Schools
Public Elementary Schools
Public High Schools

Public Intermediate / Junior High Schools
Senior Centers
Elected Officials
History
Special Services

Child Care / Preschools
Crayon Box Preschool 4410 192nd Street Flushing NY , 11358 phone: (718) 888-9341	Sensational Kids 4550 195th Street Flushing NY , 11358 phone: (718) 631-5942	St. Nicholas Preschool 196-20 Northern Blvd. Flushing NY , 11358 phone: (718)357-0800

Community Board
Queens Community Board #11 46-21 Little Neck Parkway Little Neck NY , 11377 phone: (718) 225-1054 fax: (718) 225-4514

Community Organizations & Services
46 Avenue Beautification Comm 45-67 194th Street Flushing NY , 11358	Auburndale Improv. Assoc P.O. Box 331 – Station A Flushing NY , 11358

Fire Department
Engine 320/Ladder 167 36-18 Francis Lewis Blvd Flushing NY , 11358

Local Hospitals
Flushing Hospital Medical Center 4500 Parsons Blvd. Flushing NY , 11355

Local Newspapers
Flushing Times	Queens Chronicle	Queens Courier
Queens Gazette	Queens Tribune

Parks and Playgrounds
Kissena Park Rose and Oak Avenues on the north, Kissena Boulev NY ,	P.S. 130 Playground 42nd Avenue & Francis Lewis Boulevard NY ,

Police Department
111th Precinct 45-06 215th Street Bayside NY , 11361 phone: (718) 279-5200

Post Office
Station A 40-03 164th Street Flushing NY , 11358

Private / Parochial Schools
Holy Cross High School(9-12) 26-20 Francis Lewis Blvd. Flushing NY , 11358 phone: (718) 886-7250	St. Kevin’s School (PreK-8) 45-50 195th Street Flushing NY , 11358 phone: (718) 357-8110	William Spyropoulos School (PreK-8) 196-10 Northern Blvd. Flushing NY , 11358 phone: (718) 357-5583

Public Elementary Schools
PS 130 (PK-3) 200-01 42nd Avenue Bayside NY , 11361 phone: (718) 357-6606	PS 233 @ PS 130 (SP) 200-01 42nd Avenue Bayside NY , 11361 phone: (718) 224-0490

Public High Schools
HS 495 Bayside High School (9-12) 208th Street & 32nd Avenue Bayside NY , 11361 phone: (718) 229-7600

Public Intermediate / Junior High Schools
IS 25 Adrien Block School (7-9) 34-65 192nd Street Flushing NY , 11358 phone: (718) 961-3480

Senior Centers
Self Help Clearview Senior Center 208-11 26th Avenue Bayside NY , 11360 phone: (718) 224-7888

Elected Officials
NYC Council Hon. Paul Vallone District19@council.nyc.gov
District Office Address 42-40 Bell Boulevard, Suite 507 Bayside NY, 11361 phone: (718) 619-8611 fax: (718) 631-1400	Manhattan Office Address 250 Broadway, New York NY, 10007
NYS Assembly Hon. Edward C. Braunstein braunsteine@assembly.state.ny.us
District Office 213-33 39th Avenue, Suite 238 Bayside NY, 11361 phone: (718) 357-3588 fax: (718) 357-5947	Albany Office LOB, Room 557 Albany NY , 12248 phone: (518) 455-5425 fax: (518) 455-4648
NYS Senate Hon. Tony Avella avella@nysenate.gov
District Office 38-50 Bell Boulevard, Suite C Bayside NY, 11361 phone: (718) 357-3094 fax: (718) 357-3491	Albany Office Room 504, Legislative Office Building Albany NY, 12247 phone: (518) 455-2210 fax: (518) 426-6736
US Congress Hon. Grace Meng
District Office Address 32-26 Union Street, Suite 1B Flushing NY, 11354 phone: (718) 445-7860 fax: (718) 445-7868	Legislative Office 1317 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC, 20515 phone: (202) 225-2601 fax: (202) 225-1589
Boro President Hon. Melinda Katz Info@queensbp.org

Mayor Hon. Bill de Blasio

History

The Matinecock Indians sold Flushing to the Dutch Colonists in the 1620s at the rate of one ax per 50 acres. The Dutch named it “Vlissingen,” after a port in Holland. It meant “flowing water.”

In 1657, the document called the Flushing Remonstrance, was signed by the Dutch colonists giving the Quakers and others the right to worship as they chose. The principles stipulated in the Remonstrance foresaw the freedom of religion in the U.S. Constitution. The English began ruling in 1664 and changed the name to Flushing.

Because of the abundance of trees in Flushing, the first commercial nurseries in America were organized here in the 1700s. A town hall was built in 1864 and it has been used as an opera house, police station, jail, and a dinner theater.

There have been two World’s Fairs in Flushing, one in 1939 and the other in 1964.

In the early to mid-1900s Irish, Germans and Italians resided in Flushing; but after 1965, Greeks, Chinese, Korean, and Hispanic immigrants started moving in. The formerly tree-lined pastoral town has become an important international residential and commercial center.

At first the new East Flushing Branch of the Queens Borough Public Library was set to open on November 1, 1975; but due to budget cuts it was unachievable to staff the additional branch. In 1977 a recent influx of federally financed CETA employees made it attainable for the East Flushing Branch to open for service on Monday, September 19, 1977 at 1:00pm. Previously this community had no library service, except for weekly visits by a bookmobile.