THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 44: BAYSWATER AND BELLE HARBOR

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 northwest of Far Rockaway, along the southeastern shore of Jamaica Bay.
One of Bayswater's early developers was William Trist Bailey, who had purchased the property and laid out the community around 1878, hence the street names Bailey Court and Trist Place.[3] 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 and Orthodox Jewish residents. The Bayswater Civic Association represents the area.
Bayswater is located in Queens Community District 14 and its ZIP Code is 11691.[4] It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 101st Precinct.
Belle Harbor is a small residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the borough. Belle Harbor commonly refers to the area from Beach 126th to Beach 141st Streets.[2]
The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14.[3] According to the 2010 United States Census, the neighborhood, coupled with nearby Neponsit, had a population just over 5,400.[4] Belle Harbor was the site of the 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587, which killed 265 people.