Many Chinese have settled in Flushing thanks to its good environment, convenient location and good community relations, boosting the local real estate market. "Chinese people love to buy real estate, and once they have built houses they usually sell them to other Chinese," says Yang Wen-yu, president of U.S. Eastern Times, and this is how the neighborhood came into being.
在這天時、地利、人和的條件下，許多中國人在此置產安家落戶，促使了房地產的開發，「中國人愛置產，蓋了房子也多賣給中國人」，美東時報社長楊文瑜說，社區於是形成。