College Point
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood with 27,300 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Queens, NYC
- Also known as: “College Point, Queens”, “Collegepoint”, “Strattonport Point”, and “Strattonsport”
- Postal code: 11356
Places of Interest
Highlights include LaGuardia Airport and Citi Field.
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.
Citi Field
Stadium
Photo: Chris6d, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Citi Field is a baseball stadium located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the borough of Queens, New York City, United States. Opened in 2009, Citi Field is the home of Major League Baseball's New York Mets. Citi Field is situated 2 miles south of College Point.
Poppenhusen Institute
School
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Poppenhusen Institute is a historic building at 114-04 14th Road in College Point, Queens, New York, that housed the first free kindergarten in the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Malba and Linden Hill.
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.
Linden Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City.
Whitestone
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.
College Point
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.7876° or 40° 47′ 15″ northLongitude
-73.84597° or 73° 50′ 46″ westPopulation
27,300Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)United Nations Location Code
US CPNOpen location code
87G8Q5Q3+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 158806637OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“College Point” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “學院角 (皇后區)”
- Chinese: “學院角”
- Dutch: “College Point”
- French: “College Point”
- Irish: “College Point”
- Italian: “College Point”
- Japanese: “カレッジ・ポイント (クイーンズ)”
- Japanese: “カレッジ・ポイント”
- Ladin: “College Point”
- Persian: “کالج پوینت، کوئینز”
- Persian: “کالج پوینت”
- South Azerbaijani: “کالج پوینت، کوئینز”
- Urdu: “کولج پوئنٹ، کوئینز”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Poppenhusen Triangle and Poppenhusen Branch Queens Borough Public Library.
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