(Gentleman Jim) Corbett lived in Bayside from 1902 to 1933, on a street that is named after him. Former heavyweight boxing champion James J. Fields, and Charlie Chaplin lived in Bayside, some in posh homes.
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ĭuring the 1920s and 1930s, there were several movie studios in Astoria, and movie stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Norma Talmadge, W.C. Peter Hains was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years at Sing Sing, while Thornton Hains was acquitted.
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The so-called "Regatta Murder" led to a widely publicized trial at the Flushing County Courthouse. īayside 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 Bayside House burned down in 1906, but Crocheron's name lives on as the namesake of the 45-acre (18 ha) Crocheron Park. The Bayside House, owned by Joseph Crocheron, was well-known for its clambakes. ĭuring the 19th century, Bayside was primarily farmland, where wealthy people from Manhattan would visit it as a rural resort. The first known written occurrence of the name Bayside was in a deed dated 1798, written as Bay Side. During the American Revolutionary War, whaleboatmen from Connecticut raided the Bayside–Little Neck area, and Town of Flushing was occupied by the British military. 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. Twenty years later, England took control of New Amsterdam, renamed it the Province of New York, and English people began settling the area. William Lawrence, of England, built the first permanent building, a stone farmhouse, when he settled Bayside in 1644. 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. when the Matinecock Native American tribe first settled there. History īayside Yacht Club on Little Neck Bay, 1917īayside's history dates back to 2000 B.C. Politically, Bayside is represented by the New York City Council's 19th and 23rd Districts. It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 111th Precinct.
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After the end of World War II, residential development of 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.īayside is located in Queens Community District 11 and its ZIP Codes are 11360, 11361, and 11364. During the 1920s and 1930s, there were several movie studios in Astoria, and many movie stars lived in Bayside, some in posh homes. During the 19th century, Bayside was primarily farmland, where wealthy people from Manhattan would visit it as a rural resort.
Despite its large housing stock of free-standing homes, it nationally ranks high to very high in population density. CNN Money ranked Bayside as one of the most expensive housing markets nationally when analyzing comparable detached homes throughout the United States. 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. Bayside is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
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