Bayswater is a small neighborhood in the New York City

New York City

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 borough

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 of Queens

Queens

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, on the eastern end of the Rockaway Peninsula

Rockaway, Queens

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. The community is located to the northeast of Far Rockaway

Far Rockaway, Queens

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, along the southeastern shore of Jamaica Bay

Jamaica Bay

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. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14

Queens Community Board 14

The Queens Community Board 14 is a local government in the New York City borough of Queens, encompassing the neighborhoods of Breezy Point, Belle Harbor, Neponsit, Arverne, Bayswater, Edgemere, Rockaway Park, Rockaway and Far Rockaway...

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One of Bayswater's early developers was William Trist Bailey

William Trist Bailey

William Trist Bailey was a land developer who founded the community of Bayswater in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City. He purchased the land from the descendants of Richard Cornell in 1878 and turned Bayswater into a fashionable residential neighborhood. Streets in Bayswater which bear his name...

, hence the street name Bailey Court, who had purchased the property and laid out the community circa 1878. 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 African American

African American

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 and Orthodox Jewish

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residents.