Terri's place is very clean, modest, with a happy to see you host and baby greeting you. It's a quiet house (except when the airplanes overhead change their routes - just close the windows.) The bed is comfortable and the shower has good hot water. It's a short walk to the 7 line.

Flushing is now a destination place. The end of the 7 line Main St. subway stop, is the center of the biggest expanding Chinatown; the real Chinatown of NYC, even if you can't read Mandarin - which most everyone is speaking and all the signs are in. This is where one goes to eat Chinese. The restaurants and food vendors are catering to us Asians and locals, likeTerri's recommended Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao, for real Shanghai soupy dumplings. (Go early cause there's a line every night.) The neighborhood is full of cheap excellent Chinese food, with pickled jellyfish or seaweed, and in the morning congee and you tiao for breakfast. There is also a huge grocery story with all the Asian ingredients you need.

In front of the local library, there is a little "democracy row" of political tables or Chinese news taped to walls. Everyone is bilingual, so ask questions.