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College Point is a working-middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located north of Flushing on Flushing Bay and the East River and is part of the Queens Community Board 7.〔(Queens Community Boards ), New York City. Accessed September 3, 2007.〕 Willets Point Boulevard and the Whitestone Expressway are often the neighborhood's approximate boundaries with Flushing and Whitestone, respectively; College Point also borders Willets Point at the Flushing River at the extreme southwest corner. The 109th Precinct of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) serves College Point.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NYPD - Precincts )〕 College Point is a diverse community, mostly residential with some industrial areas. == History == College Point was named for St. Paul's College, a seminary founded in 1835 by the Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg.〔(College Point ), ''Times Ledger'', January 20, 2000. Accessed October 24, 2007. "North of Flushing is College Point, named College Point in 1835 by the Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg, who established St. Paul's College there in 1838."〕〔(College Point ), Forgotten New York.〕 The college closed around 1850. Former names include Lawrence's Neck, Tew's Neck, Flammersberg, and Strattonsport. The original European settler of this area was Captain William Lawrence.〔(College Point Park ), New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed October 24, 2007.〕 He was also the largest land holder of the original incorporators of the Town of Flushing, now in Queens. He arrived in America on the ship ''Planter'' in the 1630s. He married the oldest daughter of Richard "Bull Rider" Smith, who founded Smithtown on Long Island. With his first wife he had a son, William Jr., who married the Smiths' youngest daughter. In 1854 the German-American industrialist, Conrad Poppenhusen arrived, already a prosperous manufacturer in Brooklyn of hard rubber goods, expanded his operation to this small farming community. College Point became a factory town primarily for his workers, most of them German immigrants like himself, and the tycoon became a philanthropist contributing to churches, libraries, and the Poppenhusen Institute, an educational beacon of College Point.〔During the Civil War, the Poppenhusen Institute housed Abraham Lincoln's Log Cabin, for safekeeping. After the Civil War, it was returned to its original location in Kentucky. (The Benevolent Tycoon ) Newsday〕 He is responsible for the first free kindergarten in America. He connected College Point to Flushing by the Flushing and North Side Railroad, later called Whitestone Branch. A monument on College Point Boulevard, one of the main streets in College Point, stands testament to Poppenhusen.〔(Conrad Poppenhusen Statue ), New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed September 10, 2007.〕 College Point became a center for breweries and day trip resorts, and in the 1920s shifted towards airplane parts manufacturing. In 1997, the Queens Historical Society bestowed a "Queensmark" award on College Point, in hopes of encouraging historical preservation of local landmark architecture.〔(Queensmark Comes to College Point ). Accessed September 10, 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「College Point, Queens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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