Bay Terrace-Clearview

Neighborhood · Queens

Bay Terrace-Clearview has the East River along its northern shore and Little Neck Bay to the east.

  • 1.41 square miles
  • 23,287 residents, 2020 Census
  • 177 street corners
  • 9 bus routes

Bay Terrace, originally part of Bayside, was still a place of farms and large estates in the 1950s, when the Meyer family sold its 225-acre farm, which gave way to cooperative and garden apartments and a shopping center. Clearview Park Golf Course was founded in 1925 as the Clearview Golf and Yacht Club, whose name reflects its views over the East River and Long Island Sound, and the City bought it in 1931. The Queens approach to the Throgs Neck Bridge, opened in 1961, runs through the area.

Sources: Bay Terrace, Queens (Wikipedia); Bay Terrace Playground History (NYC Parks); Clearview Park Golf Course History (NYC Parks); Throgs Neck Bridge (MTA Bridges and Tunnels).

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Bay Terrace-Clearview borders five areas, and Cross Island Parkway holds more of its corners than any other street, 22 of 177.

Street map of Bay Terrace-Clearview, Queens, outlined among Whitestone-Beechhurst, Bayside, Auburndale and Fort Totten, with Little Bay Park.Fort TottenBaysideAuburndaleMurray Hill-Broadway FlushingWhitestone-Beechhurst
  • Bay Terrace-Clearview
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on nine routes stop in or at the edge of Bay Terrace-Clearview.

  • 6 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q13
  • Q16
  • Q28
  • Q31
  • Q61
  • Q76

Express bus routes

  • QM2
  • QM20
  • QM32

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 365 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.1 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 73 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at eight of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
5
Accessible pedestrian signals
3
Turn calming
1
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
Enhanced crossings
1
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 11,578 school-zone speed camera tickets at ten corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Willets Point Boulevard & 17th Avenue, 2,817

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 23,287 residents in Bay Terrace-Clearview, about 16,500 per square mile.

  • 11,248 homes, 2020 Census
  • 97 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 2,546 residential lots hold buildings from 1955 or earlier, and 3% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
30.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Little Bay Park (21.2 acres), Clearview Park (5.6 acres) and Playground Twenty One (1.4 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,204 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Cross Island Parkway, with 22 of the area's 177
Height above sea level
From 9 feet at Cross Island Parkway & 208th Place to 116 feet at 201st Street & 24th Road
Honorary street names
3 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists five schools and two libraries in Bay Terrace-Clearview.

Public schools
5
Libraries
Auburndale Library and Bay Terrace Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 159 major felonies at places in Bay Terrace-Clearview.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Bay Terrace-Clearview

  • 166 major felonies in 2024
  • 269 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Bay Terrace-Clearview, the NYPD recorded another 23 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 7.8 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Bay Terrace-Clearview.

Map of Bay Terrace-Clearview: 5 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Bay Terrace-Clearview, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Bay Terrace-Clearview, most about 1,500 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Bay Terrace-Clearview are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Bay Terrace-Clearview and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
109th (most of the area), 111th
Major felonies recorded at places in Bay Terrace-Clearview, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 70 major felonies at places in Bay Terrace-Clearview, against 78 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.