Bay Terrace gets welcoming brand-new sign
BY JENNA BAGCAL
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Bay Terrace is the latest Queens neighborhood
Unveiling of the Welcome to Bay Terrace sign. Photo by Jenna Bagcal/QNS
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Exp. August 31st, 2019
to get a personalized welcome
sign.
On July 26, lawmakers, civic leaders
and members of the community joined
together to unveil the new Welcome to
Bay Terrace sign at the corner of Bell
Boulevard and 26th Avenue.
According to Bay Terrace Community
Alliance (BTCA) President Matthew
Silverstein, he and Councilman Paul
Vallone discussed the idea of putting up
a sign for the neighborhood similar to the
ones in Whitestone and Sunnyside.
“We called Cord Meyer and they were
kind enough to do this. We’re really excited,
I think this is the first official designation
that says this is Bay Terrace or welcome
to Bay Terrace. So as people come
down Bell Boulevard they will be welcomed
by this beautiful sign into our
community,” Silverstein said.
Bay Terrace was established in 1949 and
is often considered to be part of the larger
Bayside area. The neighborhood was originally
comprised of farms and large estates
until Cord and Charles Meyer sold their
farm for development in the 1950s.
Residential development began in
1952 and continued into the 1960s.
Commercial development, including the
creation of the Bay Terrace shopping center,
also began in the 1950s.
“It was a perfect summer day for the
grand unveiling of the new Welcome to Bay
Terrace sign Friday morning!” said Vallone.
“I was happy to work with Cord Meyer
and the Bay Terrace Community Alliance,
which is celebrating 20 years of civic activism,
to see this great idea come to fruition.”
The welcome sign installation coincides
with the BTCA 20th anniversary. In 1999,
residents formed the coalition which now
represents 5,000 households in northeast
Queens.
“People know Bayside and they hear
about Bay Terrace but they might not
exactly know where Bay Terrace is,” said
Assemblyman Ed Braunstein. “So now
when they’re coming down Bell Boulevard,
they’ll see this sign and they’ll say, ‘Oh,
now I’m entering Bay Terrace. This is what
all the fuss is about. I have to check it out.’”
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