2024 Holiday Tree Lighting

You’re Invited: 6th Annual Holiday Tree Lighting in MacNeil Park hosted by A Better College Point CIvic Association. We hope you can join us on Saturday, December 14th, at 6:00 PM as we light up MacNeil Park’s Holiday Tree! Enjoy holiday music, hot cocoa, and treats with us as we turn on the lights. The tree will remain lit nightly through January 6th.

We extend our warmest gratitude to our generous sponsors:

  • Coastal Preservation Network for providing the beautiful lights.
  • Welsbach Electric for donating their time and employees to decorate the tree.

College Point Community Blood Drive

Blood is desperately needed, please donate if you can.

Appointments work best but walk-ins will be accepted.

DATE: Saturday, August 17th, 2024

TIME: 10:30 AM – 3:00 PM

LOCATION: College Point Ambulance Corps

123-06 18th Ave., College Point

***New York Blood Center (NYBC) has issued an urgent call for type O+ and O- blood donations. This dangerous shortage is impacting local hospitals.

Use this link to make an appointment. Search for the “COLLEGE POINT COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE ” by using zip code 11356.

https://donate.nybc.org/donor/schedules/zip

This year NY Blood Center is offering a Pint for a Pint for donating blood. You can also get a non-alcoholic drink as well. This is the link to see what restaurants/Bars are participating.

https://www.nybc.org/pint

2024 ABCP Youth Center

A Better College Point Youth Center is back at MS 379! The program is still FREE and funded through a Warner Fund grant! This year we will be offering martial arts and a basketball clinic! The program is for Middle School kids, only 50 kids will be selected. Preference will be given to College Point applicants. Any spots not filled will be given to applicants from other communities. If you have any questions please email abcpcivic@gmail.com and put youth center in the subject line.

Registration Details:

Date: Friday, March 1st, 2024

Time: 6:00PM – 8:45 PM

Location: MS 379: 124-06 14th Ave, College Point, NY 11356

Block Watcher Training

This training is the first step to supporting our community. You can help by just watching over your block and reporting suspicious activity. All are welcome. The Block Watcher Program enlists individuals who watch their blocks for unlawful activities and other incidents that erode quality of life, and then notify the NYPD. The program formally organizes civic-minded volunteers by providing specialized training that equips them with the skills to provide police with complete and useful information. Each block watcher is issued a unique identification number to reference when calling 911 or 311, alerting operators that the callers have received training in recognizing criminal activity and quality of life issues. Participants in this program remain anonymous.

Click here to pre-register!

Press Conference Thursday 7/27/23

St. Agnes will be used as a “Respite Center for Asylum Seekers.” We have been told it will house 300 migrant men. As always the city puts additional strain on College Point’s infrastructure without any consideration for the residents or the overall community. The asylum seekers may move in as soon as tonight, tomorrow, or within the next 2 weeks. ABCPCA was on the phone all day getting updates from Council Member Vickie Palladino. Vickie was on the phone with the Mayor’s office all day, but the city will not change any of the plans set in motion. Vickie will be holding a press conference, please join us if you are tired of College Point ALWAYS being given the burden of supporting city initiatives and/or municipalities and never receiving any support for it! 

Date: Thursday, 27th, 2023Time: 8:00 PM

Location: The old St. Agnes building

13-20 124th St, College Point, NY 11356

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