Bayside, Queens

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Bayside is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Whitestone to the northwest, the Long Island Sound and Little Neck Bay to the northeast, Douglaston to the east, Oakland Gardens to the south, and Fresh Meadows to the west. CNN Money ranked Bayside as one of the most expensive housing markets nationally when analyzing comparable detached homes.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Despite its large housing stock of free-standing homes, it ranks high nationally in population density.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The first known written occurrence of the name Bayside was in a deed dated 1798, written as Bay Side. During the 19th century, Bayside was primarily farmland. Wealthy people from Manhattan visited it as a rural resort. During the 1920s and 1930s, there were several movie studios in Astoria, and many movie stars lived in Bayside, some in posh homes. After the end of World War II, residential development in Bayside increased dramatically, particularly because of its station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch, where a commuter could ride one train straight to Manhattan.

Bayside is in Queens Community District 11 and its ZIP Codes are 11360, 11361, and 11364.<ref name="NYCPlanning"/> It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 111th Precinct.<ref name="NYPD 111th Precinct"/> Politically, Bayside is represented by the New York City Council's 19th and 23rd Districts.<ref>Current City Council Districts for Queens County Template:Webarchive, New York City. Accessed May 5, 2017.</ref>

History

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Bayside Yacht Club on Little Neck Bay, 1917

Bayside's history dates back to 2000 B.C. when the Matinecock Native American tribe first settled there.<ref name= quality>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Around 1637, the Dutch West India Company encouraged Dutch farmers to settle on land grants in New Amsterdam, which was the name of New York then.<ref name= quality/> William Lawrence, of England, built the first permanent building, a stone farmhouse, when he settled Bayside in 1644.<ref name= quality/> Twenty years later, England took control of New Amsterdam, renamed it the Province of New York, and English people began settling the area.<ref name= quality/> When Queens County was officially established in 1683, the Town of Flushing was one of the original five towns of Queens County, and today's Bayside was within the Town of Flushing. During the American Revolutionary War, whaleboatmen from Connecticut raided the Bayside–Little Neck area, and Town of Flushing was occupied by the British military.<ref name= quality/>

The first known written occurrence of the name Bayside was in a deed dated 1798, written as Bay Side.<ref name= quality/>

During the 19th century, Bayside was primarily farmland, where wealthy people from Manhattan would visit it as a rural resort.<ref name= quality/> The Bayside House, owned by Joseph Crocheron, was well known for its clambakes.<ref name= quality/> It burned down in 1906, but Crocheron's name lives on as the namesake of the Template:Convert Crocheron Park.<ref name= quality/>

Bayside was the site of a murder by Peter Hains, a prominent army officer, abetted by his brother, sea novelist Thornton Jenkins Hains, who gunned down prominent editor William Annis at his yacht club in 1908. The so-called "Regatta Murder" led to a widely publicized trial at the Flushing County Courthouse. Peter Hains was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years at Sing Sing. Thornton Hains was acquitted.<ref>Appel, Jacob M. "Murder at the Regatta," The New York Times, August 10, 2008</ref>

During the 1920s and 1930s, there were several movie studios in Astoria, and movie stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Norma Talmadge, W.C. Fields, and Charlie Chaplin lived in Bayside, some in posh homes.<ref name= quality/> Former heavyweight boxing champion James J. (Gentleman Jim) Corbett lived in Bayside from 1902 to 1933, on a street that is named after him.<ref name= quality/> When rumors ran rampant through the acting community that Bayside would be the location of a new movie and production studio, many actors purchased homes in anticipation of an easy commute to the studio, but the rumored studio never materialized. When Hollywood emerged as the capital of the movie industry during the 1920s, many actors left Bayside to pursue careers in California.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

After the end of World War II, residential development in Bayside increased dramatically, particularly because of its station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch, where a commuter could ride one train straight to Manhattan without transferring at Jamaica station.<ref name= quality/>

Bayside remains one of the safest and wealthiest neighborhoods in Queens.<ref name="quality" /> But it has been the setting of several organized crime incidents. Michael Pappadio of Bayside managed the Lucchese crime family's interests in the Garment District of Manhattan, in secrecy from his wife. In 1989, upon falling out with his superiors, he was murdered at a bagel shop in South Ozone Park.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His wife reported him missing, and three years later she learned about his death and his life in organized crime from the FBI.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In April 2002, Gambino crime family associate Darren D'Amico was shot in the leg outside a restaurant in Bayside; his suspected shooter was Bonanno crime family associate Randolph Pizzolo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Location and boundaries

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Bronx–Whitestone Bridge between the Bronx and Queens. The Throgs Neck Bridge, also between the Bronx and Queens, is visible in the background.

Bayside is bordered by the Long Island Sound to the north and the Little Neck Bay to the northeast. To the east is the Cross Island Parkway. To the west is Francis Lewis Boulevard and Auburndale, and to the northwest is Utopia Parkway. Bayside ends somewhere north of the Long Island Expressway, although Oakland Gardens and Hollis Hills are usually considered parts of Bayside.

Bayside Gables

Bayside Gables is a privately owned gated community near the Bay Terrace shopping center and the Little Neck Bay. Homes in this community sell for as much as $4 million.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Bayside Hills

Bayside Hills is a subdivision of Bayside's south side, bordered by 48th Avenue to the north, the Long Island Expressway to the south, 211th Street to the west, and Springfield Boulevard on the east. The homes in Bayside Hills, many built by Gross Morton, are generally more upscale and have higher property values.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Bayside Hills is known for its 33 street malls and accents, especially the gatehouse at Bell Boulevard and 48th Avenue, gateposts on 48th Avenue from 216th Street, and Bayside Hills Street Clock at 50th Avenue and 214th Street.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Victorian style street clock sits upon the Leo Green Clock Mall, dedicated to the local civic activist. Further east, Captain William C Dermody Triangle Park (48 Avenue and 216 Street) memorializes Dermody's abolitionism and service in the Civil War, leading him to be mortally wounded at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Much of the public green space is maintained by the NYC Parks Department and the Bayside Hills Civic Association.

The zip code 11364 is shared with Oakland Gardens.

Bay Terrace

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Aerial view of Bay Terrace, with the Throgs Neck Bridge crossing the East River to the Bronx in the north

Bay Terrace is an affluent neighborhood<ref name="ffiec.gov">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> often considered part of the larger area of Bayside. The area encompasses gated cooperative/condominium developments such as the Bay Club and Baybridge Condominium. Other coop/condo developments include the Towers at Waters Edge, the Kennedy Street Quad, the Bayside Townhouse Condominiums, Bay Country Owners, and Bell Owners. The gated estate community of the "Bayside Gables" is also in the Bay Terrace neighborhood and is the site of some of the area's only single-family homes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> Bay Terrace overlooks the East River and the approaches to the Throgs Neck Bridge from the Clearview Expressway and Cross Island Parkway. The neighborhood is bounded on the west by the Clearview Expressway, on the south by 26th Avenue and 28th Avenue, and to the east and north by the Little Neck Bay and Little Bay.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The civic organization serving Bay Terrace is the Bay Terrace Community Alliance (BTCA).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bay Terrace has the ZIP Code 11360.

Oakland Gardens

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Bell Boulevard & 77th Avenue

Oakland Gardens is a middle class neighborhood in southern Bayside, bounded to the north by the Long Island Expressway, to the east by Alley Pond Park, to the south by Union Turnpike, and to the west by Cunningham Park.<ref name=Parks>Oakland Gardens Template:Webarchive, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed September 23, 2007.</ref> Bayside proper is to the north, and Queens Village and Bellerose are to the south and southeast, respectively.<ref>Map of Neighborhood Boundaries in Queens Template:Webarchive, Queens Borough President's Office. Accessed September 23, 2007.</ref> Fredrick Newbold Lawrence built a mansion in the area in 1847 called The Oaks, and the neighborhood's name probably derives from that estate.<ref name=Parks/> Many people refer to Oakland Gardens as "southern Bayside". Its median income is $54,031.

Demographics

Local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (based on samples from 2005 to 2009) shows that Bayside's demographics change significantly from area to area. For example, the pocket bordered by the Clearview Expressway to the west, Northern Boulevard to the north, Bell Boulevard to the east, and 48th Avenue to the south has a plurality (40%) of Asians, while 31% are Hispanic, 19% black and 13% white. Other areas are majority white, mostly of Italian, Greek, and Irish descent.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

2020 Census

As according to the 2020 census data, the Bayside neighborhood had about an equal amount of White and Asian residents with each of their population ranging from 10,000 to 19,999 residents. Black and Hispanic residents numbered fewer than 5,000.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

2010 Census

Based on data from the 2010 United States census, the population of Bayside-Bayside Hills was 43,808, a decrease of 563 (1.3%) from the 44,371 counted in 2000. Covering an area of Template:Convert, the neighborhood had a population density of Template:Convert.<ref name=PLP5>Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010 Template:Webarchive, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.</ref>

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 46.9% (20,550) White, 2.6% (1,160) African American, 0.1% (24) Native American, 37.3% (16,324) Asian, 0.0% (7) Pacific Islander, 0.3% (112) from other races, and 1.3% (565) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.6% (5,066) of the population.<ref name=PLP3A>Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010 Template:Webarchive, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.</ref>

The entirety of Community Board 11, which comprises Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck, had 119,628 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 84.7 years.<ref name="CHP2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Rp This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.<ref name=":21">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Rp<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Most inhabitants are youth and middle-aged adults: 19% are between the ages of between 0–17, 26% between 25 and 44, and 31% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 6% and 18% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

As of 2017, the median household income in Community Board 11 was $70,155.<ref name="CB11PUMA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2018, an estimated 14% of Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City. One in seventeen residents (6%) were unemployed, compared to 8% in Queens and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 49% in Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck, lower than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, Template:As of, Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

2000 Census

As of the 2000 Census, White people made up 65.6% of Bayside's population. Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Greek Americans were the largest ethnic groups representing 17.6, 12.4, and 7.3% of the population respectively. German Americans made up 6.7% of the population while Polish Americans were 3.5% of the populace. In addition, there is a large Asian American population as well. Around the mid-1990s, a significant number of Korean families began moving into the area. As of the 2000 Census, Asian Americans made up a significant 22.7% of the neighborhood's population, most of whom were Korean Americans, who made up 10.4% of the population and Chinese Americans, who made up 9.2% of the populace. There is a small African American community representing 4.5% of Bayside's population. American Indians made up a mere 0.2% of the neighborhood's population. Pacific Islander Americans were almost nonexistent in the neighborhood as there were only seven individuals of this ethnic group residing in Bayside at the 2000 Census. Multiracial individuals made up 3.2% of the population. Hispanics or Latinos made up 11.8% of Bayside's population with a small Puerto Rican population representing 2.6% of the neighborhood's population. In terms of nativity, 65.6% of the populace was native and 34.4% was foreign-born. In terms of language, 52.9% of the population aged 5 years and over spoke only the English language at home with the remaining 47.1% speaking a language other than English. Due to the large Hispanic community, 10.4% of Bayside's population spoke the Spanish language at home. Also, due to a large community of foreign-born European Americans, 15.2% speak an Indo-European language other than Spanish at home. And in part of the significant Asian American community, 20.7% of the population speak an Asian language at home. The northern part of Bayside, including Bay Terrace, has a large concentration of European Americans, particularly people of Italian heritage. The southern and eastern portions of Bayside have a more ethnically diverse population.

Bayside contains 11,439 housing units. The majority of Bayside's residents are part of family households representing 67.0% of all households with an average household size of 2.59. The median age of Bayside's residents is 38.3 years and 15.0% of residents are over 65 years of age. 83.8% of residents age 25 and over have at least graduated from high school, while 35.0% have a bachelor's degree or higher, making Bayside a more educated community than other American communities.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Landmarks

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Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette
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  • Fort Totten, New York – A fort built during the Civil War to guard the north entrance to New York Harbor, along with Fort Schuyler in the Bronx, in 1862.
  • Straiton-Storm Cigar Factory – Built Template:Circa, the factory was the largest cigar manufacturer in America. The three-story wood-frame building was of the French Second Empire style. After a large warehouse fire in late 1976, the factory was refurbished to its original state.<ref>Schneider, Daniel B. "F.Y.I." Template:Webarchive, The New York Times, October 17, 1999. Accessed December 7, 2017. "In the 1860s, the Manhattan firm Straiton & Storm was one of the largest manufacturers of hand-rolled cigars in the United States. Frederic Storm joined his brother, George, in the firm in 1865, as its treasurer, and the prosperous brothers later settled near the breezy shores of Little Neck Bay, in Bayside, Queens. Around 1872, Frederic Storm arranged for the purchase of the land east of what is now Bell Boulevard, south of the Long Island Rail Road tracks and north of Northern Boulevard, and built a three-story cigar factory in the French Second Empire style on the northeast corner of Bell Boulevard and 43d Avenue."</ref>
  • All Saints Episcopal Church – Built in 1892 as one of the first churches constructed in Bayside, the building contains examples of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work.<ref>Walsh, Kevin. "A Little-Known Treasure at All Saints Episcopal Church in Bayside" Template:Webarchive, Brownstoner, November 19, 2013. Accessed December 7, 2017. "Local historian Joan Brown Wettingfield: 'Built in 1892, this beautiful church is not only one of Bayside’s earliest, but contains local examples of reputed works executed by Louis Comfort Tiffany in his Queens studio located in Corona from 1893 to 1924.'"</ref>
  • Cornell-Appleton house at 214–33 33rd Road. Archibald Cornell's wife inherited the Template:Convert farm from her father more than 160 years ago. This twelve-room house is thought to be one of the oldest in Bayside. With past and continuing research, it has been traced back to 1852. In 1905, the house was sold to Edward Dale Appleton, of the Appleton Publishing Company. Mrs. Appleton and her sister were passengers aboard the RMS Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank. Both women were rescued by the ship Carpathia. This is the second-oldest home in Queens.<ref>Walsh, Kevin. "Is Queens’ Oldest Dwelling in Bayside?" Template:Webarchive, Brownstoner, November 22, 2013. Accessed December 7, 2017. "It resembles many of the homes in the area, but renovations over the years have changed the original appearance of the Cornell-Appleton House, which some have called Queens’ oldest private dwelling, at 33rd Road and 214th Place. A Queens Historical Society marker says it dates to 1790. However, additional research places the houses’s construction in 1852 — venerable, but not as aged as, say, the Lent-Riker House in Jackson Heights or the Onderdonk House in Ridgewood."</ref>
  • Corbett House, 221-04 Corbett Road, the home of world champion boxer "Gentleman Jim" Corbett from 1902 until his death in 1933, and of his widow Vera until her death in 1959.<ref>Nagler, Barney. "Gentleman In The House On Corbett Road" Template:Webarchive, The New York Times, September 1, 1985. Accessed December 7, 2017. "'There is this house in Bayside,' he explained, stressing the reason for his visit, 'in which Corbett, a great heavyweight champion, lived from 1902 to 1933. That's where he died. The address is 221-04 Corbett Road.'"</ref>
  • 38–39 214th Place, home of Charles Johnson Post (1873–1956), a government official, artist, and political cartoonist whose posthumously published The Little War of Private Post (1960) is one of the classic accounts of the Spanish–American War of 1898.
  • 35–25 223rd Street, home of actor W.C. Fields.<ref>Louvish, Simon. Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields, p. 267. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Template:ISBN. Accessed December 7, 2017. "Fields too found it a congenial escape - there was a fine golf course nearby. Eventually he was to move into a house at 35-25 223rd Street in Bayside, and commute from there to the studio or to his hotel haunts in New York City when theatrical engagements required."</ref>
  • "Authors House", an attached two-family house with the double addresses of 46–02 215th Street and 214–30 46th Avenue, which has been the home of more authors than any other building in Bayside.
  • Gloria Swanson's home, 216-07 40th Avenue, was the home of the silent film actress.
  • Rudolph Valentino's home, 201-10 Cross Island Parkway, was where Valentino, an Italian actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon, lived. It was also once home to Fiorello LaGuardia, the mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945. In 1993, the building was converted into a two-floor restaurant/banquet hall named Cafe on the Green. The eatery shut down in January 2009 when the city Parks Department forced out the former operators amid reports of mob ties and sloppy finances. The site's new concessionaire, Friendship Restaurant Group, began a $4 million renovation project February 1, 2009. The new restaurant, Valentino's on the Green, opened on September 8, 2010.<ref>Honan, Katie. "Historic Mansion That Once Housed Mayor LaGuardia Looking for New Tenant" Template:Webarchive, DNAinfo, July 13, 2016. Accessed December 7, 2017. "Vivaldi Ristorante opened in the historic home at 201-10 Cross Island Pkwy. in 2013 after two other restaurants closed within a few years at the site. It was once home to film star Rudolph Valentino and former Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia."</ref>

Police and crime

Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck are patrolled by the 111th Precinct of the NYPD, at 45-06 215th Street.<ref name="NYPD 111th Precinct">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The 111th Precinct ranked 8th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:As of, with a non-fatal assault rate of 8 per 100,000 people, Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck's rate of violent crimes per capita is the lowest of any area in New York City. The incarceration rate of 110 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

The 111th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 88.6% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 0 murders, 7 rapes, 35 robberies, 74 felony assaults, 163 burglaries, 361 grand larcenies, and 37 grand larcenies auto in 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Fire safety

Bayside contains two New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations.<ref>Template:Cite FDNY locations</ref> Engine Company 306 is at 40-18 214th Place,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> while Engine Co. 326/Ladder Co. 160/Battalion 53 is at 64-04 Springfield Boulevard.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The FDNY EMS Training Academy is in Bay Terrace at Fort Totten. The site also contains a museum of FDNY EMS history.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Health

Template:As of, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck than in other places citywide. In Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck, there were 81 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 1.9 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck have a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 5%, lower than the citywide rate of 12%, though this was based on a small sample size.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck is Template:Convert, less than the city average.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Ten percent of Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck residents are smokers, which is lower than the city average of 14%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp In Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck, 20% of residents are obese, 7% are diabetic, and 26% have high blood pressure. The citywide averages are 22%, 8%, and 23% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp In addition, 11% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

Ninety-four percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is more than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 86% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", higher than the city's average of 78%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp For every supermarket in Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck, there are five bodegas.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

The nearest major hospital is Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Glen Oaks.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Post offices and ZIP Codes

Bayside is covered by multiple ZIP Codes. From north to south, they are 11360 north of 32nd Avenue; 11361 between 32nd and 48th Avenues; and 11364 between 48th Avenue and Union Turnpike.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The United States Post Office operates four post offices nearby:

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  • Bayside Station – 212-35 42nd Avenue<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Bayside Annex – 41-29 216th Street<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Oakland Gardens Station – 61-43 Springfield Boulevard<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Recreation

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  • Oakland Lake

Education

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Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city Template:As of. The majority (52%) of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, while 11% have less than a high school education and 37% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 39% of Queens residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp The percentage of Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck students excelling in math rose from 70% in 2000 to 88% in 2011, though reading achievement stayed at around 73% during the same time period.<ref name=":17">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City. In Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck, 5% of elementary school students missed 20 or more days per school year, the lowest in the city and lower than the citywide average of 20%.<ref name=":21" />Template:Rp<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Additionally, 95% of high school students in Bayside and Douglaston–Little Neck graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

Schools

Bayside is home to Queensborough Community College, a branch of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, established in 1959.<ref>Clark, Roger. "Queensborough Community College brings diversity to campus", NY1, November 17, 2022. Accessed June 6, 2023. "The college in Bayside, Queens opened on the site of a former golf course in 1959. 'This is actual college campus right considering you are in New York City and so many of the colleges are vertical buildings, or one buildings or two buildings on a city street, here you have 37 acres of land,' Christine Mangino, president of Queensborough Community College, said."</ref> The college is on a Template:Convert site that was formerly the Oakland Golf Club.<ref>Fast Facts and Economic Value, Queensborough Community College. Accessed June 6, 2023. "Queensborough Community College of The City University of New York is located on 37 acres in Bayside, New York, on the former site of the historic Oakland Golf Club."</ref>

Bayside is part of the New York City Department of Education's district 26, the highest-performing school district for grades K-9 in all of New York City. The district includes 20 elementary schools and 5 middle schools.<ref name="about">Roleke, Krissy. "Bayside, NY: Queens Neighborhood Profile for Bayside" Template:Webarchive, About.com. Accessed July 15, 2006.</ref> District 25 also serves part of the neighborhood.

Bayside is home to a number of New York City Public Schools:

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  • PS 213 Oakland Gardens
  • PS 31 The Bayside School
  • PS 41 The Crocheron School
  • PS 46 The Alley Pond School
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Parochial schools include:

  • Lutheran School of Flushing & Bayside (Lutheran school)
  • St. Robert Bellarmine School (Catholic school)
  • Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament School (Catholic school)
  • Sacred Heart Catholic Academy (Catholic school)

Libraries

The Queens Public Library operates three branches in Bayside:

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  • The Bayside branch at 214-20 Northern Boulevard<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Transportation

Bayside's highways include the Clearview Expressway (I-295) and the Long Island Expressway (I-495), as well as the Cross Island Parkway. The north end of the Brooklyn–Queens Greenway is in Little Bay Park, under the Throgs Neck Bridge approaches, with a connection to the Utopia Parkway bicycle lane. It lies between Cross Island Parkway and Little Neck Bay, connecting Bayside to Douglaston and Alley Pond Park, and to central Queens and Coney Island. Francis Lewis Boulevard is a major street notorious for drag racing, which has resulted in several fatalities to drivers and pedestrians over the years.<ref>Call For Cameras Along Drag Strip Where 2 Were Struck Template:Webarchive, Queens Gazette, April 14, 2004.</ref>

Bayside is connected to New York Penn Station, Grand Central, northern Queens, and Long Island by the Bayside station, one of a few express stations on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch. The New York City Subway's Template:NYCS trains serve nearby Flushing at the Flushing–Main Street station.<ref>Template:NYCS const</ref> New York City Bus's Template:NYC bus link local routes, and Template:NYC bus link express routes.<ref>Template:Cite NYC bus map</ref> The Nassau Inter-County Express's Template:LI bus link routes also serve Bayside.

After the MTA began extending the Template:NYCS trains of the IRT Flushing Line westward into Manhattan in 2007, the 2012 fiscal year Community District Needs of Queens report suggested extending the line eastward from Flushing–Main Street to relieve congestion in Downtown Flushing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Early plans for the line were to have it end in Bayside at Bell Boulevard near Northern Boulevard.<ref>Template:Cite Routes Not Taken</ref>

  • The character George Costanza from the TV series Seinfeld mentions in the episode "The Strike" that his family lived in Bayside until they were driven out because of their belief in Festivus.<ref>Gross, Lori. "Bayside's Festivus Exploited for a Kosher Cut", Bayside-Douglaston, NY, Patch, December 14, 2010. Accessed June 6, 2023. "Costanza's family lived in Bayside, until the neighborhood got wind of their special holiday season observance. In 'The Strike' episode of Seinfeld, George Costanza tells his boss, 'I was afraid that I would be persecuted for my beliefs. They drove my family out of Bayside, Sir!'"</ref>
  • The movie Sally of the Sawdust (1925) was filmed in Bayside.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Bayside is featured in the 1997 NYPD Blue episode "Taillight's Last Gleaming". Two NYPD officers assigned to a Bayside precinct pull NYPD Lieutenant Arthur Fancy over while he is driving through Bayside with his wife, for reasons that appear racially motivated. Fancy then has the senior officer transferred out of his predominantly white precinct in Bayside to a predominantly black precinct in Brooklyn North as punishment.
  • The movie Frequency is set in Bayside. Dennis Quaid's character brags that he is from "Bayside, born and raised!"<ref>Turan, Kenneth. "On the Same Wavelength; Son reunites with dead father via a ham radio in 'Frequency,' a sci-fi tale that changes the past and upheaves the future with a few too many twists and turns.", Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2000. Accessed December 7, 2017. "Sullivan, married to the appealing Julia (Elizabeth Mitchell) and with a 6-year-old son named Johnny, lives in Bayside, Queens, and is by all appearances the happiest family man in all five boroughs.... Just like that, it's 30 years later, Oct. 10, 1999, the northern lights have returned, and little Johnny is grown up into darkly handsome John, a New York City police detective. Conveniently enough he still lives in the Bayside house he grew up in though his father is now dead and his mother moved to an apartment."</ref>
  • The character Adrian Cronauer, played by Robin Williams in the movie Good Morning, Vietnam, is from Bayside. When asked "What are Queens?", Cronauer responds: "Tall thin men who like show tunes."
  • The movie Pride and Glory shot several scenes in Bayside, including the family dinner set in Edward Norton's father's house.
  • An episode of The White Shadow was in part filmed in Bayside. They used Bayside High School, the Bell Blvd. bridge over the Long Island Railroad and the front of De Rolf's Stationery Store for some dialogue scenes.Template:Citation needed
  • The opening scene in the 1997 movie The Devil's Advocate was filmed at Pier 25A, a seafood restaurant in Bayside.
  • In the 2007 film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, the drive-by murder scene where Philip Seymour Hoffman and his brother rob their parents' jewelry store (Alicia's Jewelers in Bay Terrace) and accidentally kill them was filmed in Bay Terrace.<ref>Santucci, Christina. "Hollywood comes to Bay Terrace", QNS.com, July 27, 2006. Accessed December 24, 2023. "Linse said that he was also very pleased with how similar the Bayside shopping center looked to one in Westchester, where the movie is set. At Bay Terrace, the movie crew created a shell store in a vacant space to recreate the jewelry shop that the protagonists own."</ref>

Notable people

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