Price: $0.00
Location: Flushing, Queens
City: New York City
Country: United States
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 16.4 min
Class: Walking
Date Created: 5/16/2008
Previews: 14
File Size: 15.59 MB
Tracks: 7
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Description: "Flushing is a place where immigrants from around the world have been coming for more than 350 years. It has always been a cradle of cultural and religious freedom.---IT was slow going on the thronged sidewalks of downtown Flushing, Queens, one recent spring afternoon, in the heart of its huge and bustling Asian community. Along Main and Union Streets many of the signs and the conversations are in Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese. A street vendor blasted Chinese pop music. At a sidewalk counter you can buy Peking duck to go. I passed under the wide window of a tea shop where high school kids sat people-watching and text-messaging as they sipped bubble tea, the sweet Chinese tea with pearls of tapioca in it. At a Chinese grocery tiny grandmas elbowed me aside, the better to haggle with the grocers over vegetables and fruit." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/02expl.html
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