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Encyclopedia > Bayswater, Queens

Bayswater is a small neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, on the eastern end of the Rockaway Peninsula. The community is located to the northeast of Far Rockaway, along the southeastern shore of Jamaica Bay. One of Bayswater's early developers was William Trist Bailey. Once the location of a number of summer hotels such as the Elstone Park and the Sunset Lodge, Bayswater is now a year-round residential neighborhood. Bayswater has a diverse population with large numbers of black people from various countries and many orthodox Jews living together peacefully. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Five Boroughs redirects here. ... For other uses, see Queens (disambiguation) and Queen. ... A Rockaway Peninsula street scene. ... Far Rockaway street scene Far Rockaway is one of the four neighborhoods on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. ... Jamaica Bay is a bay that lies in the shadow of New York Citys skyscrapers and is adjacent to one of the nations busiest airports. ... William Trist Bailey was a land developer who founded the community of Bayswater in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City. ... Though most indigenous Africans possess relatively dark skin, they exhibit much variation in physical appearance. ... Orthodox Judaism is one of the three major branches of Judaism. ...


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Queens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1539 words)
Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the United States, is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City.
Queens County is in the western part of Long Island and includes a few smaller islands, most of which are in Jamaica Bay and form part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
The part of Queens County that was not annexed to New York City, consisting of the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay and all of the Town of Hempstead except the Rockaway Peninsula, was constituted as the new Nassau County in 1899.
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