Cheshire Frager
Flushing
The Downtown Flushing Transit Hub Business Improvement District, or Flushing BID, has run advertising for a new executive director that lists preferred skills for applicants, including knowledge of English and Mandarin Chinese – not Korean.
Whom does it intend to serve? Is it actually the Chinese Flushing BID?
The Korean owners of small businesses along Union Street resisted Flushing Commons. Many believe that first the construction, and then the businesses in the Commons, will destroy their livelihoods.
And all this leaves out the larger picture, which is that Latinos, African-Americans and almost all other ethnic groups seem to be virtually excluded from opening businesses in Flushing, and the BID isn’t going to organize any programs to help them, either.
One must ask again, whom does this BID intend to serve?
