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New high-end condos on the market in Flushing

Few of Flushing's finer flourishes remain from 1917, when humorist Ellis Parker Butler wrote from his home there: "I am in a placid, beautiful country town."

But other charms endure from Butler's day: "Eighteen minutes in the cleanest and most comfortable of steel cars, on a swift electric train, puts me in the very heart of Manhattan," he wrote in his essay "Why I Live in Flushing."

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