In celebration of Earth Day , the plan is to restore Big Rock Beach in College Point to its former glory.

For decades, residents of College Point in northeastern Queens enjoyed its suburban feel—a quiet, waterfront enclave that sits on Flushing Bay and the East River. But the addition of several big ...

College Point residents are fuming over the city’s plan to build 3,000 new homes on the long-abandoned Flushing Airport — which they argue will sink the over-congested peninsula.

In 1868, Poppenhusen moved his company to College Point and built a structure that would act as the center of town life and still stands today.