Flushing's Chinatown, centered on Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue, has grown into one of the largest ethnic Chinese enclaves outside Asia — sometimes called the "Chinese Times Square" — and now rivals and in many ways surpasses Manhattan's Chinatown in scale and culinary diversity. Beginning in the 1970s with Taiwanese immigrants who established "Little Taipei," it shifted through the 1990s and 2000s into a predominantly Mandarin-speaking community drawing immigrants from across mainland China, making the Flushing–Main Street subway station one of the busiest in the entire system.