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The fort is close to the Queens neighborhoods of Bay Terrace, Bayside, Beechhurst and Whitestone. The original purpose was to defend the East River approach to New York Harbor, combined with the preceding Fort Schuyler, which faces it from Throggs Neck in the Bronx on the opposite side of the river entrance.
Bayside Yacht Club on Little Neck Bay, 1917. Bayside's history dates back to 2000 B.C. when the Matinecock Native American tribe first settled there. [9] Around 1637, the Dutch West India Company encouraged Dutch farmers to settle on land grants in New Amsterdam, which was the name of New York then. [9]
Raymond P. Ayres, Jr. (born October 6, 1944) [1] is an American military officer who held the rank of Lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps. Born in Carthage, Missouri and raised in Bayside, New York, in 1966 Ayres graduated from Iona College in mathematics and entered the U.S. Marine Corps.
Fort Totten Officers' Club, also known as the Castle, is a historic clubhouse located at Fort Totten in Bayside, Queens, New York. The officers' club was built in the 1870s and expanded to its present size in 1887. It is a large Late Gothic Revival style building.
For census purposes, the New York City government classifies Bay Terrace as part of a larger neighborhood tabulation area called Fort Totten–Bay Terrace–Clearview. [9] Based on data from the 2010 United States Census , the population of Fort Totten–Bay Terrace–Clearview was 21,751, a change of -980 (-4.5%) from the 22,731 counted in 2000 .
We clambered excitedly onto the small boat at the bayside dock. It was fairly windy, but the two men running the operation assured our parents it was a fine day for parasailing .
By the 1950s, there were Jahn's locations across Brooklyn with the most popular in Flatbush, and others in Marine Park, Bay Ridge, Sheepshead Bay, the Fordham section of the Bronx, Jackson Heights, Forest Hills, Bayside, Queens, Eastchester, East Meadow, West Islip, Great Neck, Williston Park, Rockville Centre, Cedarhurst, Union, New Jersey ...
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