Bayside

Neighborhood · Queens

Bayside faces Little Neck Bay, with Douglaston to the east and Auburndale and Fresh Meadows to the west.

  • 2.53 square miles
  • 35,588 residents, 2020 Census
  • 464 street corners
  • 12 bus routes

The Matinecock lived here before English settler William Lawrence put up a stone farmhouse in 1644, and the name first appears as Bay Side in a 1798 deed, for the area's position south of Little Bay and west of Little Neck Bay. In the 1920s and 1930s Bayside was home to film stars, among them Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and W.C. Fields. Queensborough Community College was established in 1959 on the former Oakland Golf Club, and 45-acre Crocheron Park is named for Joseph Crocheron.

Sources: Bayside, Queens (Wikipedia); The Names of the Neighborhoods of Queens, Part 2 (Forgotten New York); Auburndale, Queens (Wikipedia).

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Bayside borders five areas, and Bell Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 29 of 464.

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  • Bayside
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 12 routes stop in or at the edge of Bayside.

  • 8 local bus routes
  • 4 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q12
  • Q13
  • Q27
  • Q28
  • Q30
  • Q31
  • Q74
  • Q75

Express bus routes

  • QM5
  • QM8
  • QM20
  • QM35

Safety record

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

  • 1,233 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.7 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 145 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 20 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
11
Leading pedestrian intervals
7
Turn calming
7
Barnes Dance all-way 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
  • 24,455 school-zone speed camera tickets at 17 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 35,588 residents in Bayside, about 14,100 per square mile.

  • 13,486 homes, 2020 Census
  • 393 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 8,201 residential lots hold buildings from 1950 or earlier, and 27% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
110.1 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Alley Pond Park (42 acres), Crocheron Park (39.6 acres) and John Golden Park (17 acres)
Designated landmark
The Hawthorne Court Apartments

Streets and trees

Trees
9,785 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Norway maple
Street with the most corners
Bell Boulevard, with 29 of the area's 464
Height above sea level
From 23 feet at 28th Avenue & 216th Street to 123 feet at 58th Avenue & 229th Street
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 11 schools and one library in Bayside.

Public schools
8
Charter and private schools
3
Library
Bayside Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 423 major felonies at places in Bayside.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Bayside

  • 369 major felonies in 2024
  • 704 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Bayside, the NYPD recorded another nine major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Bayside.

Map of Bayside: 18 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 Bayside, 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 Bayside, 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 Bayside 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 Bayside and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
111th
Major felonies recorded at places in Bayside, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 189 major felonies at places in Bayside, against 184 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.