City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens by R. Scott Hanson

Author:R. Scott Hanson [Hanson, R. Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2016-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

Members of Free Living Water Church with “Jesus Loves You” vests outside of the Flushing branch of the New York public library system, on Main Street.

Hispanic women from the Jehovah’s Witnesses, with free copies of the Watchtower for people entering and exiting the subway, wait next to newspaper vendors.

Ratha Yatra route map for the annual Ganesh Chaturthi parade.

Various religious and ethnic processions and parades criss-cross the same streets on similar routes, each group proudly and loudly asserting itself, but on different and separate days and times of the year. Police officers in the Community Affairs Unit of the local 109th precinct often act as a liaison to the different ethnic and religious groups in Flushing. Before all street parades, festivals, and other functions, places of worship send a letter to the precinct with dates, times, and planned routes in advance of an event, and a number of officers are then sent as a free service to monitor activities.77 The streets of Flushing might be a kind of battleground if such events were ever scheduled for the same time, but instead it seems the various parades and processions take place quite literally on common ground.

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