Bayside, Queens

Bayside is the name of a neighborhood in Queens County of New York City, New York in the United States of America. It is an affluent and mostly suburban neighborhood connected to Manhattan and Long Island by the Long Island Rail Road and major highways, such as the Long Island Expressway and the Cross Island Expressway. Bayside is home to two major New York City high schools, Bayside High School and Benjamin Cardozo High School. It is also home to Queensborough Community College, a branch of the CUNY (City University Of New York) System. It is known for its nursing, music and musical technology programs and state of the art recording studios. Bay Terrace is a community of garden apartments located in the north section of the neighborhood; an adjacent shopping center was named after the community. The northern section of Bay Terrace also has a view of the Throgs Neck Bridge, which leads to the Bronx. The Coast Guard station at Fort Totten is located at the northernmost point of the neighborhood. Bayside is a generally peaceful neighborhood, with many ethnic minorities but very few ethnic tensions. The Bayside population includes Jewish, Italian, Greek, Chinese and Korean residents.

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Queens - New York City - New York - United States of America - Suburban - Long Island Rail Road - Long Island Expressway - Cross Island Expressway - Bayside High School - Benjamin Cardozo High School - Queensborough Community College - CUNY - State of the art - Throgs Neck Bridge - Bronx - Coast Guard - Fort Totten - Jew - Italian - Greek - Chinese - Korean

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The suburb was a site of alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a housewife from Queens named Veronica Lueken. These events took place on the grounds of St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Bayside, but in 1975 she and her followers were evicted, with the vigils then taking place in Flushing Meadows Park, at the old Vatican Pavilion site during the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. The events and its apocalyptic pronouncements have always been condemned by the Roman Catholic diocese of Brooklyn as lacking authenticity. Lueken died in 1995, but some followers remain, with the park vigils still continuing in the absence of the seer.

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Virgin Mary - Queens - Flushing Meadows Park - 1964-1965 New York World's Fair - Roman Catholic - Diocese - Brooklyn

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