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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. [4]
The 109th Precinct – covering neighborhoods including downtown Flushing, Whitestone and College Point – has expanded with a 66-officer satellite precinct to try to improve emergency response ...
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.
In 1639, Dutch Governor Willem Kieft (1597–1647) purchased the land that today encompasses Queens County from the Matinecock. William Lawrence (1622–1680), who served as a magistrate under Dutch and English administrations, was granted a parcel of land by King Charles II in 1645 that included a large portion of what is today Bayside, in addition to College Point, Whitestone, and Fort Totten.
NYPD says crime rates are down in city and on the subway. In a Dec. 3 news release, the New York Police Department (NYPD) reported that crime rates are down in the city: Major crimes were down 1.9 ...
A man is in critical condition after he was shoved onto New York City subway tracks on New Year's Eve, adding to a recent spate of violent incidents in the nation's busiest subway system.. 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.
Officials say two migrant teens were victims in a New York City stabbing, one fatally, after the teens were asked if they spoke English and they responded that they didn't. Police say they were ...