Bay Terrace, Queens

Bay Terrace is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Queens, and is often considered part of Bayside. The Bay Terrace housing development in the 1950s and the creation of the Bay Terrace Shopping Center lent the area its own identity. Bay Terrace overlooks the East River and the approaches to the Throgs Neck Bridge from the Clearview Expressway and Cross Island Parkway. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 7, [ [http://www.nyc.gov/html/cau/html/cb/cb_queens.shtml Queens Community Boards] , New York City. Accessed September 3, 2007] and within ZIP Code 11360.

The civic organization serving Bay Terrace is the Bay Terrace Community Alliance (BTCA). [ [http://www.btca.org Bay Terrace Community Alliance] ]

Bay Terrace is also a shortened name for the Bay Terrace at Bayside Shopping Center. [ [http://www.bayterrace.com/ Bay Terrace at Bayside Shopping Center] ]

Education

Bay Terrace residents are zoned to New York City Department of Education schools. The elementary school in Bay Terrace is PS 169. [ [http://schools.nyc.gov/OurSchools/Region3/Q169/default.htm?searchType=school Public School 169 Bay Terrace School] ] The middle schools are Intermediate School 25 [ [http://schools.nyc.gov/OurSchools/Region3/Q025/ IS 25 Adrien Block Intermediate School] ] and Junior High School 194. [ [http://schools.nyc.gov/OurSchools/Region3/Q194/ JHS 194 William Carr Junior High School] ] The public high school is Bayside High School. [ [http://schools.nyc.gov/OurSchools/Region3/Q495/default.htm Bayside High School] ]

The Queens Borough Public Library operates the Bay Terrace Branch.

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