Frisbee game takes place there on Saturday mornings all year. Address: Bounded by Shore Boulevard, Ditmars Boulevard, 19th Street, 21st Street and Hoyt Avenue, Astoria. 5 Performance venues and groups Flushing Town Hall Flushing Town Hall was built in 1862 in the Romanesque revival style and first housed swearing-in ceremonies for Union soldiers before they joined the Civil War. It served as an opera house, a courthouse, a jail, and a bank branch before the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts took it over in 1990. Now facilities include a 308-seat concert hall that hosts all kinds of concerts and ethnic shows, a classroom, and a 250- seat outdoor garden. There is also a gallery which exhibits painters from all around the world. Inside scoop: In the 1840s, legendary showman P.T. Barnum was the hall’s impresario and Tom Thumb (aka General Tom Thumb the dwarf) was its star performer. Frederick Douglass also gave a speech there. Address: 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, and www.flushingtownhall.org. 70 70 QUEENS IN YOUR POCKET • www.itsinqueens.com
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