 The Williamsburgh Yacht Club is located on the east side of Flushing Bay in College Point.It was established in Brooklyn in 1865, but then the yacht club moved to North Beach (now part of the LaGuardia Airport) in 1896.The New York City Department of Sanitation's North Shore Marine Transfer Station is located in College Point on the eastern shore of Flushing Bay.From 1954 to 2001, this site was used to transfer garbage from trucks to barges.