College Point
College Point is a working-middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
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. 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.
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Worth seeing in and around College Point
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and the largest metropolitan zoo, comprising 265 acres of park lands and naturalistic habitats separated by the Bronx River.
8.1 km · metropolitan zoo in the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA · Wikipedia - 02Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in the Bronx, New York City. It is the home field of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.
9.2 km · baseball stadium in the Bronx, New York City, USA · Wikipedia - 03Fordham University
Fordham University is a private Jesuit research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1841, it is named after the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, in which its original campus is located.
9.7 km · private research university in New York City, USA · Wikipedia - 04Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is a public park in the northern part of Queens in New York City, New York, U.S. It is bounded by I-678 on the east, Grand Central Parkway on the west, Flushing Bay on the north, and Union Turnpike on the south. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is the fourth-largest public park in New York City, with a total area of 897 acres.
4.7 km · large public park in Queens, New York · Wikipedia - 051939 New York World's Fair
The 1939 New York World's Fair was an international exposition held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. The fair featured exhibitions, activities, performances, films, artworks, and food presented by 62 nations, 35 U.S. states and territories, and more than 1,400 organizations and companies.
4.7 km · fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York · Wikipedia - 06Citi Field
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.
3.2 km · Baseball stadium in Queens, New York City, USA · Wikipedia - 07Arthur Ashe Stadium
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.
4 km · tennis stadium · Wikipedia - 08Shea Stadium
William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, typically shortened to Shea Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Opened in 1964, it was home to the New York Mets of Major League Baseball from 1964 to 2008, as well as the New York Jets of the American Football League and the National Football League from 1964 to 1983.
3.5 km · 1964-2009 sports stadium in Queens, New York, USA · Wikipedia - 09New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a 250-acre site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a greenhouse containing several habitats; and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, which contains one of the world's largest collections of botany-related texts.
9.5 km · botanical garden in the Bronx, New York City · Wikipedia - 10St. John's University
St. John's University is a private Catholic university in Queens, New York City, United States.
7.8 km · university in New York City, New York, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to College Point
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 3 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 17 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 30 km
- Stations
- LaGuardia Airport, 3.5 km · Delta Air Lines Flight 1086, 2.6 km
- Philadelphia → College Point145 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · $14–19
- Hartford → College Point146 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · $13–18
- Albany → College Point208 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · $19–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for College Point
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for College Point. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIf you happen to be staying in or venturing to the southeast Bronx, consider taking a NYC Ferry to the Soundview (connections to buses Bx39 and Bx27) or Throgs Neck docks (free parking) for a more unique experience than riding the subway underground (you'll do plenty of that in NYC).
- Get aroundIf the salt water views are making you thirsty, grab a drink at the ferry's snack bar.
- Get aroundThe fare is a flat $4 with free transfers to other ferries for 120 minutes.
- Get aroundCheck the official NYC Ferry website for current maps and schedules.
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Next door to College Point
College Point is 8 km from The Bronx, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- The Bronxborough of New York City, New York, United States7.6 km
- Queensborough in New York City, New York, United States8 km
- US Opentennis tournament held in New York City4 km
- Q189074neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States9.9 km
- East Rivertidal strait in New York City6.9 km
- Flushingneighborhood in Queens, New York City, United States2.1 km