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College Point Fields is a public park in College Point, Queens, New York City. It is bounded by Ulmer and 130th Streets to the west, 23rd Avenue to the north, Linden Place to the east, and 26th Avenue and the remains of Mill Creek to the south. The park contains two fields each for Little League Baseball and regular baseball; a soccer field; a ...
College Point Industrial Park, a commercial area and business park, was first proposed for College Point in 1960. The site, initially 300 acres (120 ha), was bounded by Whitestone Expressway on the southeast, 15th Avenue on the north, and 127th Street on the west.
Unlike neighborhoods in the other four boroughs, some Queens neighborhood names are used as the town name in postal addresses. For example, whereas the town, state construction for all addresses in Manhattan is New York, New York (except in Marble Hill, where Bronx, New York is used), and all neighborhoods in Brooklyn use Brooklyn, New York, residents of College Point would use the ...
The Queens portion included the neighborhoods of College Point, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights and Woodside. The Bronx portion of the district included the neighborhoods of Co-op City , Morris Park , Parkchester , Pelham Bay , and Throgs Neck as well as City Island .
[28] [29] Several underground pipes, as well as man-made drainage ditches on the New York City Police Academy campus and north of 28th Avenue, carry the creek from the airport to the Flushing River. [30] College Point was a peninsula until the mid-20th century, separated from the rest of Queens by Mill Creek's northern branch. [31]
[154] [155] [156] The depot was originally the New York headquarters and bus garage for Greyhound Lines. Ground broke on the facility on April 26, 1966. [157] It was designed by De Leuw, Cather, and Associates and built by Turner Construction. [157] It was sold to the New York City Transit Authority in 1996.
Flushing Airport was constructed atop 250 acres (100 ha) of wetlands beginning in 1927. The airport opened two years later, in May 1929. At the time, it was the last privately-owned airfield in Queens.
Ferry Point Park is a 413.8-acre (167.5 ha) park in the Bronx, New York City. The park site is a peninsula projecting into the East River roughly opposite the College Point and Malba neighborhoods of Queens .