Bayside

Bayside
—  Neighborhoods of New York City  —
Bell Boulevard
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Queens
Named for	Place name of the Native American Lenape.
Population (2000)
• Total	83,105
Ethnicity
• White	65.6%
• Black	4.5%
• Hispanic	11.8%
• Asian	22.7%
Economics
• Median income	$68,250
ZIP code	11360, 11361, 11364
Area code(s)	718, 347, 917

Bayside is an upper middle class neighborhood in the northeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens. Bayside is known as one of the most expensive areas to live in Queens, with well kept homes and landscaping.^[1][2] The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 11.^[3]

Bayside has been included in CNN Money's list of Most Expensive Housing Markets,^[4] and was also a contender for CNN Money's ranking of Best Places to Live 2005,^[5] and Best Places to Retire 2005.^[6]

History

Bayside's history dates back to 2000 B.C., when the Matinecock Native American tribe first settled there. In the late 17th century, the area was settled by English colonists. By the middle of the 18th century, early settlers left their homes in Flushing and developed a farming community, Bay Side. During the Revolutionary War, the Bayside-Little Neck area suffered from raids by whaleboatmen from the Connecticut shores. In one of the raids, the Talman house was attacked and the miller was killed. In the 19th century Bayside was still mostly farmland. Middle 20th century urban sprawl, with the help of better roads, suburbanized it. During the 1920s, many actors and actresses, such as Rudolph Valentino, lived in Bayside. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century Bayside saw an influx of people associated with the theater and movie industries. The town was then established as a colony for stage and screen stars. Two of the prominent members of The Manhattan-based Lambs Club, Joseph Grismer and Clay M. Green, had adjoining properties overlooking Little Neck Bay where they held club parties called the "Washing of the Lambs" that attracted those associated with the movie industry. The Manhattan-based Lambs Club originated as a men's only acting organization. When rumors ran rampant through the acting community that Bayside would be the location of a new movie and production studio, many actors, of both sexes, purchased homes in anticipation of an easy commute to the studio. However, this 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. ^[7]

Bayside was the site of a murder in 1909 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. 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, while Thornton Hains was acquitted.^[8]

Location and boundaries

Bayside is located in northeastern Queens, on the North Shore, and is part of Queens Community Board 11.^[9] Its geographical boundaries are: Francis Lewis Boulevard to the west, 233rd Street to the east, Grand Central Parkway to the south,^[10] and Cross Island Parkway/Little Neck Bay to the north. Bayside is bordered by neighboring communities Douglaston/Little Neck to the east, the much larger neighborhoods of Fresh Meadows, Queens and Whitestone, Queens to the west, and Oakland Gardens to the south.^[11] The neighborhood of Bayside Hills is itself a newer subdivision within Bayside.

Bay Terrace is a garden apartment community located in the north section of the neighborhood; an adjacent open-air shopping center was named after the community. The northern section of Bay Terrace also has a view of the Throgs Neck Bridge, which leads to The Bronx.

Francis Lewis Boulevard, one of Bayside's main streets

Bayside's major highways include the Long Island Expressway, Clearview Expressway, and the Cross Island Parkway. Bayside is also connected to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and Long Island by the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch at the Bayside station.

The north end of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway is in Little Bay Park, under the Throgs Neck Bridge approaches, with convenient connection to the Utopia Parkway bicycle lane. It lies between Cross Island Parkway and Little Neck Bay, connecting Bayside to Douglaston, Queens and Alley Pond Park, and eventually to central Queens and Coney Island, Brooklyn.

Francis Lewis Boulevard is a major street formerly notorious for drag racing, which resulted in several fatalities to drivers and pedestrians over the years.^[12]

Bell Boulevard is a popular strip complete with numerous bars and restaurants which has transformed Bayside into a nightlife destination. The boulevard has attracted many people throughout Queens and even commuters from Long Island via the Bayside LIRR station, who enjoy the small-town vibe and the proximity of bars, lounges and restaurants to each other.

Demographics

As of the 2000 Census, Whites made up 58.8% of Bayside's population. Of people from this group, 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 which 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.^[13][14]

Bayside is an upper middle class neighborhood with many wealthy residents. It is one of Queens' more affluent neighborhoods. The median household income in 2005 was $62,611, and 88.0% of all households own at least one car.^[15]

Crime

An article in The Village Voice called Bayside one of the safest neighborhoods in New York City.^[16] The New York Police Department includes the portion of Bayside south of 26th Avenue in the 111th precinct; areas north of 26th Avenue are in the 109th precinct.^[17]

Education

PS 162

PS 205

Schools

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.^[11]

Bayside is home to a number of New York City high schools:

• Bayside High School
• Benjamin Cardozo High School

as well as a number of parochial schools:

• Sacred Heart School Catholic School
• The Lutheran School of Flushing & Bayside Lutheran school
• St. Robert Bellarmine School Catholic School
• Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament School Catholic School
• Bell Academy Public Middle School

Bayside is also home to Queensborough Community College, a branch of the City University of New York (CUNY) system.^[18]

Libraries

Queens Borough Public Library operates the Bayside and Bay Terrace Branches.

Parks

Little Bay Park

• Alley Pond Park
• Little Bay Park
• Crocheron Park
• Cunningham Park
• Throggs Neck Park
• John Golden Park
• Raymond O'Connor Field

Landmarks

Lawrence cemetery

All Saints Episcopal Church

• Lawrence Cemetery - 216th Street & 42nd Avenue.^[19]
• 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 c. 1872, 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, this factory has been refurbished to its original state.
• All Saints Episcopal Church - The first church in Bayside, built in 1892, contains examples of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work.
• Cornell-Appleton house at 214-33 33rd Road. Archibald Cornell's wife inherited the 100-acre (0.40 km²) 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.
• Corbett House, 221-04 Corbett Rd., the home of world champion boxer "Gentlemen Jim" Corbett from 1902 until his death in 1933, and of his widow Vera until her death in 1959.
• 38-39 214th Place, home of Charles Johnson Post (1873–1956), 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.
• "Authors House", the attached two family house with the double addresses of 46-02 215th Street and 214-30 46th Avenue, that has been the home of more authors than any other building in Bayside.
• Gloria Swanson's home, 216-07 40th Ave, Home of famed silent film actress Gloria Swanson.
• Rudolph Valentino's Home, 201-10 Cross Island Parkway, residence of Rudolph Valentino, an Italian actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. It was also once home to Fiorello Henry La Guardia, Mayor of New York 1934-1945. In 1993, The building was converted into a two floor restaurant/banquet hall named Cafe on the Green. The popular 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 dollar renovation project February 1, 2009. The new restaurant, Valentino's on the Green, opened September 8, 2010.

In media

Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette

• The movie Sally of the Sawdust (1925) was filmed in Bayside.^[11]
• Bayside has been included in CNN Money's list of Most Expensive Housing Markets,^[4] and was also a contender for CNN Money's ranking of Best Places to Live 2005,^[5] and Best Places to Retire 2005.^[6]
• Bayside is featured on a 1997 episode of NYPD Blue titled "Taillight's last Gleaming". NYPD Lieutenant Arthur Fancy is pulled over driving through Bayside with his wife, by two NYPD officers assigned to a Bayside Precinct, for reasons that appear to be 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 Queens. Dennis Quaid's character brags that he is from "Bayside Queens, born and bred!"
• The starring characters of the HBO series Entourage are originally from Bayside.^{[episode needed]}
• The character George Costanza from the TV series Seinfeld was from Bayside (until his family was "driven from Bayside" because of their belief in Festivus).^{[episode needed]}
• The character Elliot Stabler from the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was born and raised in Bayside Queens
• The character Kathy Stabler from the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was born and raised in Bayside Queens
• The character Maureen Stabler from the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was born in Bayside Queens
• The character Katlheen Stabler from the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was born in Bayside Queens
• The character Richard Stabler from the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was born in Baysode Queens
• The character Elizabeth Stabler from the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was born in Bayside Queens

Notable people

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• Peggy Adler, author & illustrator of children's books; investigative researcher; Police Commissioner
• Rolf Armstrong, painter.^[20]
• John Barrymore, actor.^[21]
• Bayside (band), the rock group
• Irving Berlin, composer and lyricist
• Patti Ann Browne, anchor and reporter
• Michael Chang, tennis player
• Charlie Chaplin, actor.^[22]
• Jim Corbett (1866–1933), boxer, lived here from 1902 until his death in 1933.^[23]
• Joseph Cornell (1903–1972), artist.^[24]
• Frank Costello (1891–1973), prominent gangster, known as the "prime minister of the underworld."
• Marie Dressler (1868–1934), Academy Award winning actress who played "Tugboat Annie."
• Howard R. Driggs (1873–1963) historian of the Pony Express and the Oregon Trail.
• Perry Farrell, frontman of Jane's Addiction
• W.C. Fields, comedian / actor.^[21][22]
• John T. Flynn (1882–1964), author, journalist, and leader of the America First Committee.
• Charles Ghigna, poet and children's author known as "Father Goose," born in Bayside, 1946.
• Jim Gilligan, Lamar University baseball coach with over 1140 career wins.
• Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist
• Alison Leslie Gold, author of books on Anne Frank and others
• George Grosz (1893–1959), German-American artist.
• Mohammad Salman Hamdani (1977 – 2001), New York City Police Department cadet and EMT who died assisting victims on the September 11 attacks in New York.^[25][26]
• Judge Thomas Jones
• Scott Ian, musician
• Ron Jeremy, pornographic actor, director
• Buster Keaton, comedian / actor
• Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, popular singers.
• Dan Lilker, musician
• Patrick Lynch, NYPD PBA President
• Paul Newman, actor
• David Nolan, historian and author of Fifty Feet in Paradise
• Anthony Raneri, frontman of Bayside (band)
• Matthew Robert Silverstein, New York State Young Democrats President
• Donald L. Pilling, Former Vice Chief of Naval Operations
• José Reyes, shortstop for the New York Mets.^[27]
• Nolan Ryan (1947-), lived here while playing for the New York Mets.^[28]
• Tom Seaver (1944-), pitcher, member of Baseball Hall of Fame
• Manuel De Peppe, actor, singer, songwriter, music producer
• Matt Striker, WWE wrestler
• Fred Stone (1873–1959), actor
• Gloria Swanson (1899–1983), actress^[21][22]
• Norma Talmadge (1893–1957), actress^[21][22]
• Clark Terry, Hall of Fame musician
• Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926), actor^[22]
• Dave Valle (1960-), MLB player for the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, and the Texas Rangers
• Edward Villella (1936), ballet dancer
• Pearl White (1889–1938), actress, star of "The Perils of Pauline"
• Andy Li, (1993-) Mixed martial artist who is currently under UFC contract. Amateur record of 36-0-1 and professional record of 2-0-0. He currently lives in Little Neck.

References

External links

New York City portal

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