College Point

Neighborhood · Queens

College Point sits on the East River with Flushing Bay to its west, and this area also takes in the waterfront enclave of Malba to its east.

  • 2.39 square miles
  • 33,625 residents, 2020 Census
  • 318 street corners
  • 8 bus routes

The neighborhood is named for St. Paul's College, an Episcopal seminary that opened here in the 1830s, and after 1854 Conrad Poppenhusen's hard-rubber works made it a factory town for German immigrant workers. The Poppenhusen Institute, which he established in 1868 and which held the country's first free kindergarten, is a city landmark, and Malba, developed from 1908, takes its name from the first letters of its five founders' surnames.

Sources: Hermon A. MacNeil Park History (NYC Parks); College Point (Wikipedia); Poppenhusen Institute (Wikipedia); Whitestone, Queens (Wikipedia).

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College Point borders three areas, and 14th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 37 of 318.

Street map of College Point, Queens, outlined among Whitestone-Beechhurst, Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing and Flushing-Willets Point, with College Point Fields.Whitestone-BeechhurstMurray Hill-Broadway FlushingFlushing-Willets Point
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  • A neighboring area
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on eight routes stop in or at the edge of College Point.

  • 5 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q20
  • Q25
  • Q26
  • Q50
  • Q76

Express bus routes

  • QM2
  • QM20
  • QM32

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 1,340 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.2 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 55 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at five of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
3
Leading pedestrian intervals
1
Turn calming
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 10,547 school-zone speed camera tickets at seven corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
28th Avenue & Linden Place, 4,305

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 33,625 residents in College Point, about 14,100 per square mile.

  • 11,071 homes, 2020 Census
  • 625 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,252 residential lots hold buildings from 1945 or earlier, and 44% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Rehab Program (College Point) development lies wholly or partly within College Point.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
88.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
College Point Fields (26.9 acres), Powell's Cove Park (24.2 acres) and Hermon A. MacNeil Park (22.7 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Queens Borough Public Library's Poppenhusen Branch and the Poppenhusen Institute

Streets and trees

Trees
6,346 in NYC Parks' records, most often Japanese flowering cherry, thornless honeylocust and London planetree
Street with the most corners
14th Avenue, with 37 of the area's 318
Height above sea level
From 7 feet at 28th Avenue & Linden Place to 72 feet at 12th Avenue & 121st Street
Honorary street names
8 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists four schools and one library in College Point.

Public schools
3
Charter or private school
1
Library
Poppenhusen Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works in College Point: Conrad Poppenhusen Memorial (1884) and College Point War Memorial (1930).

  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 284 major felonies at places in College Point.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in College Point

  • 339 major felonies in 2024 55 fewer in 2025
  • 1,220 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025
Police precinct
109th
Major felonies recorded at places in College Point, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 138 major felonies at places in College Point, against 137 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.