Photo collage of Black Dublin, a Black and Irish community established in the 1800s in what is now downtown Flushing, created using 1940s tax lot photos from the NYC Municipal Archives.
Quilted memorial to Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Founded in 1811, AME likely served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. In addition to being central to Black life in Flushing, it also served as a burial ground for Black residents at a time when there were no public cemeteries.
Investigatory collage on the formation of the Town of Flushing.