Right off the East River and Flushing Bay is the multifaceted neighborhood of College Point. Neighboring Whitestone, College Point has a bit of everything from the working class to the wealthy, residential zones to industrial ones, and apartments to large single family houses, College Point is truly a collective of everything in NYC.
For those wondering why this neighborhood is called College Point when there is no college, it's because one of the first institutions in the area was a seminary called St. Paul's College, founded in 1835. Said college shut down in 1850, but the name remained as the area was developed.
In 1854, industrialists began to build factories in College Point, which meant housing for the factory workers soon followed. The results of these workers living here was that they created their own paradise, even creating the first free Kindergarten in the United States.
Eventually, the residents of the neighborhood made it…
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