Poppenhusen Triangle

Poppenhusen Triangle is a park in Queens, New York. Poppenhusen Triangle is situated nearby to the neighborhood College Point, as well as near Silverpointe Estates.

Type: Park
Description: park in the United States of America
Also known as: “Poppenhusen Park”

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 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 Triangle.

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 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.