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College Point is a mostly residential ethnically diverse community with some industrial areas. The neighborhood is served by several parks and contains two yacht clubs. College Point is located in Queens Community District 7 and its ZIP Code is 11356. [1] It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 109th Precinct. [5]
A new crime-fighting initiative in northeast Queens is slated to bring dozens more cops to the area – and residents couldn’t be happier. The 109th Precinct – covering neighborhoods including ...
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.
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 ...
District 19 covers neighborhoods along the shoreline of far eastern Queens, including Auburndale, College Point, Whitestone, Bay Terrace, Beechhurst, and parts of Flushing, Bayside, and Douglaston–Little Neck. [4] The district overlaps with Queens Community Boards 7 and 11, and with New York's 3rd, 6th, and 14th congressional districts.
On June 26, 2010, several passerby found Sheu collapsed and unresponsive outside of a warehouse in College Point, Queens. [2] Sheu was taken to Flushing Hospital Medical Center, at which point two of Sheu's friends (Will Galison and Sherry Bobrowsky) received a call from an NYPD officer who had retrieved Sheu's phone, informing them that Sheu was hospitalized.
College Point takes its name from St. Paul’s College, a shortly-operated college that was founded in 1838 and discontinued in 1850. College Point remained a primarily rural town until the mid-1850s, when rubber factory executive Conrad Poppenhusen arrived in the region and spurred a rapid industrialization of the area.
The Queens Community Board 7 is a local governmental advisory board in New York City, encompassing the neighborhoods of Flushing, Bay Terrace, College Point, Whitestone, Malba, Murray Hill, Linden Hill, Beechhurst, Queensboro Hill and Willets Point, in the borough of Queens. [3]