Destination: The Americas

College Point, New York (NY)
Archivist:  Susan Williams

Local Genealogical Research Aids

The Becker family is believed to be the first Donauschwaben family from Banat to immigrate to College Point: 

Jacob Becker, Obituary - Aug 5, 1901 - Publication: Brooklyn Eagle:

   
 

Danube Swabian Passenger Records, Destination: College Point, NY

David Dreyer's Emigration extractions from Banat, list 102 records of
Banat immigrants who settled in College Point, New York.


Street Locators

If you happen to have old maps of College Point, a census record or property description, you may be confused when you cannot locate a street where your ancestors once lived.   

Here is a sampling of the  "Old" to "New" names for the College Point area.

A Ave to  13th Avenue
High Street to 14th Avenue
Chisholm Avenue to 6th Avenue
1st Avenue  to 14th Avenue
2nd Avenue  to 14th Road
3rd Avenue to 15th Avenue
4th Avenue to 18th Avenue
Bay  to  119th Street
Bleeker to 129th Sgtreet
Brackenridge Ave. to 5th Avenue
Breen Avenue  to 6th Avenue
Broadway to 20th Avenue
Source:  Steve Morse Website - site address:http://stevemorse.org/census/changes/QueensChanges0.htm

This list was generated from an LDS film # 1976731.  Check the Steve Morse site for other cities and states.   Many thanks to Steve Morse and the transcribers who made this possible. 

New street names to old street names in Queens:
http://stevemorse.org/census/changes/QueensChanges2_1to40.htm


More about College Point, Queens County, New York

If you're thinking of living in College Point, new information about College Point & a little bit of it's German history.  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E6D91338F937A15750C0A9649C8B63

View of College Point - 1876 www.georgeglazer.com/maps/newyorkmaps/collegepoint.html

Notable buildings in College Point, New York http://www.preserve.org/queens/collegep.htm

This interesting link gives the history of the  park including the use of the mansion at the park by Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia. (building no longer exists ... but the history lives on) www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=227

Germans In Queens: The Steinways Old Traditions In A New Key
www.queenstribune.com/anniversary2002/germans.htm   

The Flushing and North Side Railroad: College Point to Whitestone www.lirrhistory.com/F&NSRR.html

Forgotten NY Neighborhoods - College Point
www.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/collegepoint/collegepoint.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Point,_New_York 

 

 


 

 


College Point, NY Archivist:  Susan Williams

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Last updated: Wednesday January 14, 2009


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