Flushing resident John Bowne was arrested and was sent to Holland by New Amsterdam’s Governor-General Peter Stuyvesant to stand trial for practicing his Quaker faith. The year was 1662, and Stuyvesant ...

See history preserved in a 17th century house on Treasures of New York: Bowne House. From the fight for religious freedom, to the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, Treasures of New York ...

The Bowne House, built in 1661, was once the site of banned Quaker religious meetings that got its owner John Bowne banished from the colonies.

The house at 37-01 Bowne St. in Flushing was built around 1661 by John Bowne, a Quaker who emigrated from England to Boston in 1649 and then settled in Flushing, when New York was under Dutch rule.

The Bowne House, where John Bowne defied Dutch Colonial law and allowed members of the outlawed Quaker faith to meet, will become the Trust’s 23rd site once the handover is complete.

The exhibition also features documents from the trial of John Bowne, a Flushing resident who publicly opposed the ordinance.

Bowne, a prominent Quaker who emigrated from England to Boston before settling in Flushing, used the home as a meeting place to celebrate religious diversity at a time when it was forbidden by law.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --A 16-year-old boy has been stabbed at a Queens high school. It happened around 11 a.m. Tuesday at John Bowne High School in Flushing. As 1010 WINS' Al Jones reported, there ...

In a game that lasted nearly five hours thanks to a 75-minute rain delay, the John Bowne Wildcats beat the Martin Van Buren Veebees 2-1 in 10 innings to win the PSAL “B” division final ...