Bayside, Queens
neighborhood in Queens, New York City, United States
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, and Fresh Meadows to the west. CNN Money ranked Bayside as one of the most expensive housing markets nationally when analyzing comparable detached homes. Despite its large housing stock of free-standing homes, it ranks high nationally in population density.
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.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bayside, Queens” as neighborhood in Queens, New York City, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as neighborhood in Queens, New York City, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2892339. VIAF identifies the subject as 138534727. The Library of Congress control number is n95050761. Authority coordinates are 40.768, -73.777. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1798.
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