Haight Street: Queens Vs. San Francisco

You might think San Francisco and Flushing have nothing in common, but they share something. At the extreme western end of Flushing, between College Point Blvd., the Van Wyck Expressway, the Long Island Railroad and the Kissena Park Corridor, there’s a cluster of small streets unnoticed except by their residents and the people who work there.

One of the north-south streets is called Haight St., like what was the anchor street of San Francisco’s counterculture, the Haight-Ashbury District—more colloquially, just The Haight.