Queens · Community District 7

Flushing-Murray Hill-Whitestone

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Community Board
7
Elected seats covering it
11
Land area
30.7 km²
Landmarks
8

Everything on this ground

Community Board 7

Advisory, but it reviews every development before anyone else does — and its meetings are open to you.

Chair
Chuck Apelian
Manager
Marilyn McAndrews
Office
30-50 Whitestone Expressway, Suite 205, Flushing, NY 11354
Phone
718-359-2800
Email
qn07@cb.nyc.gov
Meets
Regular meeting and public hearing: second Monday of each month at 7:00 PM; if a holiday falls on that day the meeting moves to the fourth Monday. Held at St. Luke-Msgr. Tosi Pastoral Center, 16-34 Clintonville Street, Whitestone, NY 11357 (parking across the street). No regular meetings in July or August; date and time subject to change at the Chair's discretion.
Board website ↗
City Council

City law, the city budget, the binding vote on rezonings.

  • Vickie Paladino

    District 19 · Republican · covers 63% of CD 7

    718-619-8611

  • Sandra Ung

    District 20 · Democratic · covers 36% of CD 7

    718-888-8747
State Assembly

Rent and tenant law, school funding, state benefits.

  • Sam Berger

    District 27 · Democratic · covers 37% of CD 7

    718-969-1508

  • Ron Kim

    District 40 · Democratic · covers 28% of CD 7

    718-939-0195

  • Edward C. Braunstein

    District 26 · Democratic · covers 18% of CD 7

    718-357-3588

  • Nily Rozic

    District 25 · Democratic · covers 17% of CD 7

    718-820-0241
State Senate

The other half of state law. MTA funding and oversight.

  • Toby Ann Stavisky

    District 11 · Democratic · covers 55% of CD 7

    718-445-0004

  • John C. Liu

    District 16 · Democratic · covers 46% of CD 7

    718-765-6675
U.S. House

Federal law, and caseworkers for immigration and benefits.

  • Grace Meng

    District 6 · Democratic · covers 40% of CD 7

    (718) 358-6364

  • Thomas R. Suozzi

    District 3 · Democratic · covers 39% of CD 7

    (718) 631-0400

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    District 14 · Democratic · covers 20% of CD 7

    718-662-5970
8 landmarks

What stands on this ground, and why it's worth knowing.

CivicFlushing

Flushing Chinatown (Downtown Flushing)

The commercial district centered on Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue, home to the largest Chinatown outside Asia by some measures and a dense concentration of Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean businesses.

Why it matters

Flushing has grown from a satellite of Manhattan's Chinatown into the primary Chinese-American center in New York City, and its regional Chinese food scene is among the most significant in North America.

Main Street at Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354

VenueFlushing

Flushing Town Hall

An 1862 Romanesque Revival town hall, now a performing and visual arts center presenting jazz, global music and gallery exhibitions. It is operated by the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts.

Why it matters

One of the few surviving pre-consolidation municipal buildings in New York City, it served as the seat of the Town of Flushing and hosted Frederick Douglass and P.T. Barnum. It is a New York City landmark and on the National Register.

137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11354

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HistoricBayside

Fort Totten

A former Army coastal fortification on a peninsula at the entrance to Long Island Sound, begun in 1862 and never completed. The grounds are now a city park with the surviving Civil War-era water battery, an 1887 officers' club castle and an FDNY training facility.

Why it matters

The best-preserved Civil War fortification in New York City, it is a New York City historic district and a National Register site, and its shoreline offers direct views of the Throgs Neck Bridge.

Totten Avenue, Fort Totten Park, Bayside, NY 11359

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ReligiousFlushing

Hindu Temple Society of North America (Ganesh Temple)

A South Indian-style temple consecrated in 1977 and dedicated to Ganesha, built by traditional temple artisans brought from India. It includes a well-known basement canteen serving South Indian vegetarian food.

Why it matters

One of the first traditionally built Hindu temples in the United States and the religious center of the region's Indian-American community, made possible by the 1965 immigration reforms that reshaped Queens.

45-57 Bowne Street, Flushing, NY 11355

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HistoricFlushing

John Bowne House

A Dutch-English colonial farmhouse begun in 1661 and one of the oldest surviving buildings in New York City. John Bowne was arrested and exiled for allowing Quakers to worship in it.

Why it matters

Bowne's successful appeal to the Dutch West India Company established a precedent for religious tolerance in New Netherland that is regarded as a forerunner of American religious freedom. It is a National Historic Landmark.

37-01 Bowne Street, Flushing, NY 11354

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ReligiousFlushing

Old Quaker Meeting House

A shingled timber meeting house built in 1694 by the Religious Society of Friends and still used for weekly worship. It is the oldest house of worship in New York City and among the oldest in the United States.

Why it matters

Its congregation traces to the 1657 Flushing Remonstrance, the earliest American petition for freedom of conscience. The building is a National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark.

137-16 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11354

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ParkFlushing

Queens Botanical Garden

A 39-acre botanical garden that began as a five-acre horticultural exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair. Its collections include a rose garden, a bee garden and an arboretum, and its visitor center was the first LEED Platinum building in New York City.

Why it matters

A World's Fair survivor turned neighborhood garden, it programs heavily around the Chinese, Korean and South Asian communities of Flushing and pioneered sustainable design in city cultural buildings.

43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11355

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SportsFlushing / Corona

Citi Field

Home ballpark of the New York Mets since 2009, seating roughly 41,000. Its brick facade and rotunda are modeled on Ebbets Field, and it replaced Shea Stadium on the adjacent site.

Why it matters

The Mets are the borough's defining major-league franchise, and the ballpark's Jackie Robinson Rotunda ties Queens to one of the most important stories in American sports and civil rights.

41 Seaver Way, Flushing, NY 11368

Stands in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, which belongs to no single community district. Community District 7 is the nearest.

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19 civic groups

Neighbours who already meet about this. Joining one is the fastest way to get a hearing at the board.

  • Bowne House Historical Society

    Cultural

    Historical society that has operated the c.1661 John Bowne House in Flushing since 1945, offering guided tours, school programs, archives and public history events.

    Website ↗bownehouseoffice@gmail.com718.359.0528

  • Broadway-Flushing Homeowners' Association

    Neighborhood association

    Association founded in 1964 that enforces the Rickert-Finlay covenant and defends the single-family, detached-house character of the Broadway-Flushing historic district.

    Website ↗

  • Downtown Flushing Transit Hub BID

    Business improvement district

    Business improvement district covering the Main Street, Roosevelt Avenue and Kissena Boulevard core of Downtown Flushing around the transit hub.

    Website ↗info@flushingbid.com718-888-1805

  • Flushing Town Hall (Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts)

    Cultural

    Landmark performing and visual arts center in Flushing presenting multicultural music, dance, theater and arts education programming for Queens.

    Website ↗education@flushingtownhall.org(718) 463-7700

  • Guardians of Flushing Bay

    Advocacy

    Volunteer waterfront advocacy group organizing shoreline cleanups, water-quality monitoring, tours and land-use advocacy for Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek.

    Website ↗

  • MinKwon Center for Community Action

    Advocacy

    Flushing-based Korean American organizing and advocacy center working on immigrant rights, civic participation, youth empowerment and social services.

    Website ↗minkwon@minkwon.org(718) 460-5600

  • Poppenhusen Institute

    Cultural

    Historic College Point landmark operating as a community cultural center and museum with arts classes, concerts, local history exhibits and civic meeting space.

    Website ↗poppenhusen@yahoo.com(718) 358-0067

  • Queens Botanical Garden

    Cultural

    39-acre public botanical garden in Flushing offering horticultural displays, environmental and compost education, and community cultural programming.

    Website ↗718-886-3800

  • Bay Terrace Community Alliance

    Civic association

    Civic alliance representing the Bay Terrace section of northeast Queens on development and quality-of-life matters.

    info@btca.com

  • Greater Whitestone Taxpayers Civic Association

    Civic association

    Civic association representing homeowners, tenants and businesses across greater Whitestone on zoning, development and quality-of-life matters.

    gwtca@verizon.net

  • Kissena Park Civic Association

    Civic association

    Civic association representing residents around Kissena Park in Flushing.

    kpcafny@aol.com

  • Station Road Civic Association

    Civic association

    Civic association for the Station Road area of Auburndale in northeast Flushing.

    stationroadcivic@hotmail.com

  • We Love Whitestone

    Civic association

    Volunteer civic association founded in 2015 that runs community events, public-safety outreach and local advocacy in Whitestone.

    Website ↗

  • Bowne Park Civic Association

    Civic association · listed by the board, unconfirmed

    Civic association representing residents in the Bowne Park area of north Flushing.

  • College Point Civic and Taxpayers Association

    Civic association · listed by the board, unconfirmed

    Civic and taxpayers association representing College Point residents and property owners.

  • Malba Civic Association

    Civic association · listed by the board, unconfirmed

    Civic association for the Malba section of Whitestone.

  • Mitchell Linden Civic Association

    Civic association · listed by the board, unconfirmed

    Civic association for the Mitchell-Linden cooperative housing area of Flushing.

  • North Flushing Civic Association

    Civic association · listed by the board, unconfirmed

    Civic association representing residents of north Flushing.

  • Queensborough Hill Civic Association

    Civic association · listed by the board, unconfirmed

    Civic association representing the Queensboro Hill section of Flushing.

Overlaps are computed by land area — near a boundary, check your exact address. Every state and federal seat here is on the ballot November 3, 2026. These are the sitting officeholders, not projected winners.

Boundaries: NYC Dept. of City Planning via NYC Open Data (May 2026). Officeholders verified against official sources on 2026-08-06. District overlaps are computed by area and are approximate near boundaries.