Flushing Commuters

Where Flushing Residents Work and
How They Get There

Flushing is one of many Queens neighborhoods where more commuters use cars - either driving alone or with one or more companions - to get to work than use any other form of transportation. Most subway riders, no matter what their destinations, face long commutes, with three in four taking daily rides of more than 45 minutes each way. The only subway line serving the area is the #7, whose overcrowding will only worsen when it is extended to enable new development on Manhattan's Far West Side. The Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington branch parallels the #7, but few Flushing residents can afford the much higher LIRR fares.

While most commuters work in Manhattan Flushing is strongly represented in major Queens employment centers, including College Point, Long Island City, Jamaica/JFK and downtown Flushing itself.