Explore Queens’ Flushing, from neighborhood favorites to unique curated events. Start with the best-known things to do, then check out "What's happening" for upcoming limited events in Flushing.
These special events are sourced from the web and social media, then carefully curated based on cool and unique events you might enjoy doing in Flushing.
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You can follow the Fragrance Walk and herb beds at Queens Botanical Garden, then move among roses, perennial plantings and the Bee Garden. The Oak Allée and arboretum shift your attention upward to branches and canopy. Across these themed gardens, there’s room to look closely at individual plants as well as take in the trees, with Main Street’s shops beyond the grounds.
Plush toys are the objects of friendly competition at Gatcha in Tangram, northwest of the botanical garden. You pick a prize to aim for, line up the claw and try to lift it out, while friends can follow each attempt. The first-floor clawcade brings East Asian arcade culture into the mall, with an arcade and shop alongside the claw machines.
Rescue cats awaiting homes are the reason to visit Kokoro Cat Café, where you can spend time with them in a small-group cattery session. The Flushing café partners with Anjellicle Cats Rescue to house adoptable animals. Its Japanese-inspired setting and Japanese beverages make this a different Tangram stop from the clawcade, with the visit centered on time in the cats’ company.
Lewis Latimer’s work as an inventor, activist and community organizer unfolds room by room at Lewis Latimer House, north of Tangram. You explore his former home through Light Up the World, the permanent exhibition created for the museum’s 2024 redesign. The opening gallery connects his technological and cultural legacy to everyday life; A Definite Purpose follows his career amid the racial discrimination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
German-language newspaper publisher Conrad Voelker moved his family to this Flushing house in 1899. On a house tour at Voelker Orth Museum, you can see furnishings retained from the three generations who lived here. Family photographs from the early 1900s guided the restoration, while donated objects add to the picture of domestic life. The museum lies east of the downtown cluster, in Flushing’s Murray Hill neighborhood.
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| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 Malaysia Day Merdeka Parade | Sun, Oct 18 | Permit areaMain Street, Peck Avenue to Elder Avenue, Queens, NYFlushing · Queens | 12pm-3pm |
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A parade for Malaysia Day and Merdeka takes over Main Street in Queens, with the street fully closed to traffic while it passes.
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A 39-acre garden originally planted for the 1939 World's Fair and enlarged for the 1964 fair.
4.3★ from 2,859 Google reviews
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A cat café in Flushing where you book a session in the cattery and spend it with the resident cats over a drink.
4.8★ from 1,662 Google reviews
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A multi-screen cinema showing current releases.
4.2★ from 923 Google reviews
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A Korean day spa in Flushing with hot tubs and both wet and dry saunas, plus locker rooms and showers.
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You book a private karaoke room by the hour and sing from a song library drawn from YouTube.
4.8★ from 596 Google reviews
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A Queens pool hall with more than 40 tables across four games.
4.4★ from 587 Google reviews
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A spa offering massage treatments, with a sauna and restroom on site.
4.6★ from 550 Google reviews
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A small spa in Flushing offering massage and body treatments.
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This is a room of claw machines where you play for plush toys and collectibles — Labubu, POP MART, Pokémon cards, Sonny Angel, Smiski, Sanrio and similar.
4.9★ from 365 Google reviews
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A karaoke place in Flushing with 15 private rooms that take parties of various sizes.
4.4★ from 284 Google reviews
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A gaming café with PCs and monitors set up for play, plus cushioned seating to settle into.
4.6★ from 217 Google reviews
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A Korean-style spa where the treatments are body scrubs and massages.
4.3★ from 183 Google reviews
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An indoor family playground in Flushing built so parents play alongside the children rather than watch from a bench.
4.2★ from 110 Google reviews
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This is Lewis Latimer's historic home, recently redesigned, with a new permanent exhibition.
4.7★ from 108 Google reviews
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You tour an 1890s house that was home to a German immigrant family, then spend time in the Victorian garden and bird sanctuary that surround it.
4.6★ from 95 Google reviews
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A relaxed billiard hall with snooker tables, rented by the hour.
4.2★ from 88 Google reviews
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This is a 4,800-square-foot room given over entirely to table tennis — ten Butterfly tables plus robot machines that fire balls at you, so a child can drill alone while you play someone else.
4.4★ from 75 Google reviews
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Indoor batting cages fed by automated pitching machines, so you can take swings without a pitcher.
5★ from 55 Google reviews
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Private karaoke rooms where groups sing along to recorded tracks and music videos.
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An art school running structured courses by age and skill level rather than drop-in sessions.
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Two neighboring counters offer a choice between steamed rice rolls and Uyghur dishes built around noodles or rice.
For dim sum, you can choose a Cantonese daytime menu or focus on handmade Shanghainese soup dumplings.
Beyond downtown Flushing, one stop shows the city in miniature while a zoo in Corona focuses on wildlife.
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