College Point
College Point is a cape in Queens, New York. College Point is situated nearby to the neighborhood Silverpointe Estates, as well as near Malba.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include LaGuardia Airport and Whitestone Bridge.
LaGuardia Airport
Photo: ERIC SALARD, CC BY-SA 2.0.
LaGuardia Airport is the third major airport in the New York area. While JFK and Newark Airport are major international airports, LaGuardia mostly serves domestic flights.
Whitestone Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Dav5nyc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City, carrying six lanes of Interstate 678 over the East River. The bridge connects Throggs Neck and Ferry Point Park in the Bronx, on the East River's northern shore, with the Whitestone neighborhood of Queens on the southern shore.
Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center
Prison
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The Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center was an 800-bed jail barge used to hold inmates for the New York City Department of Corrections. The barge was anchored off the Bronx's southern shore, across from Rikers Island, near Hunts Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include College Point and Malba.
College Point
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
College Point is a working-middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded to the south by Whitestone Expressway and Flushing; to the east by 138th Street and Malba/Whitestone; to the north by the East River; and to the west by Flushing Bay.
Malba
Neighborhood
Whitestone is a residential neighborhood in the northernmost part of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood proper is located between the East River to the north; College Point and Whitestone Expressway to the west; Flushing and 25th Avenue to the south; and Bayside and Francis Lewis Boulevard to the east.
Clason Point
Neighborhood
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Clason Point is a peninsula and a neighborhood in the East Bronx, New York City. The area includes a collection of neighborhoods including Harding Park, and Soundview.
College Point
- Type: Cape
- Also known as: “Lawrence’s Neck” and “Lawrences Neck”
- Category: landform
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.7937° or 40° 47′ 37″ northLongitude
-73.85306° or 73° 51′ 11″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
87G8Q4VW+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 7525199575OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
5113301
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