Poppenhusen Institute

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.

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Places of Interest Nearby

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 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 Poppenhusen Institute.

Arthur Ashe Stadium

Stadium

Photo: jeff horne, CC BY 2.0.

Arthur Ashe Stadium is a retractable roof tennis arena at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world. Arthur Ashe Stadium is situated 2½ miles south of Poppenhusen Institute.

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.

Linden Hill

Neighborhood

Photo: Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central part of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. Linden Hill is situated 1½ miles southeast of Poppenhusen Institute.

Poppenhusen Institute

Type: School
Description: historic building in New York, United States
Categories: historic building and education
Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.7844° or 40° 47′ 4″ north

Longitude

-73.85293° or 73° 51′ 11″ west

Elevation

30 feet (9 metres)

Open location code

87G8Q4MW+QR

OpenStreetMap ID

node 357616908

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=school

GeoNames ID

6330359

Wikidata ID

Q7229517

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In Other Languages

“Poppenhusen Institute” goes by many names.

German: “Poppenhusen Institute”

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