Located in northeastern Queens, Whitestone has been the site of shipwrecks, Harry Houdini's home, and a "spaceship church."
From an abandoned airport to a park named after the designer of a version of the quarter, here are 14 secrets of College Point, Queens.
Robert Moses proposed a bridge that would help ferry New Yorkers between Queens and the Bronx. Many congested lanes later, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge was born.