Koreatown, Long Island

Koreatown, Long Island
Neighborhoods of Queens
Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, Queens is the origin of the Long Island Koreatown.
Country	United States
State	New York
Counties	Queens County and Borough Nassau County
Region	Long Island
Agglomeration	New York City Metropolitan Area

Koreatown, Long Island, or the Long Island Koreatown (Hangul: 롱 아일랜드 코리아타운), on Long Island in the U.S. state of New York, is one of the largest and fastest growing ethnic Korean enclaves outside of Korea.

The core of this Koreatown originated in the Flushing (플러싱) neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens (퀸즈). However, this Koreatown has continued to expand rapidly eastward alongside Northern Boulevard through the Queens neighborhoods of Murray Hill,Auburndale,Bayside, Douglaston, and Little Neck, and eventually into the Gold Coast of Nassau County (나소 카운티).

In the 1980s, a continuous stream of Korean immigrants emerged into Flushing, many of whom began as workers in the medical field or Korean international students who had moved to New York City to find or initiate professional or entrepreneurial positions. They established a foothold on Union Street in Flushing between 35th and 41st Avenues, featuring restaurants and karaoke (noraebang) bars, manicure and pedicure salons, grocery markets, education centers and bookstores, banking institutions, offices, consumer electronics vendors, apparel boutiques, and other commercial enterprises, and a Koreatown was conceived in Flushing.