Detached houses with driveways and hedged lawns run down to Little Neck Bay, a marina and the Throgs Neck Bridge.
What Bayside looks like
The commercial strip runs along , brick storefronts under fabric awnings with apartments above. East of it, the side streets are almost entirely detached houses on driveways. Most were built in the 1950s and 1960s in Tudor, Colonial, Cape and Victorian styles. Street trees and clipped hedges line the sidewalks, and a few six storey elevator co-ops rise among the houses.
Bayside Hills has thirty three landscaped street malls down the centers of its roads, with stone gateposts on 48th Avenue and a Victorian style clock further along Bell Boulevard. On 213th Street, the is a Second Empire house from the 1870s, pale stucco with a slate mansard roof and paired arched window heads on its lower floor.
Corporal Kennedy Street holds , a three storey stone faced building from 1936 with a round arched window over its main entrance and wings extending east on either side. Its athletic complex sits across the Clearview Expressway to the west, built in the 1960s.
At the shoreline, holds a Civil War era fort and a crenellated wooden building known as the Castle, with the Throgs Neck Bridge crossing the water behind it. runs along Little Neck Bay a mile west, with a brick gazebo above the water. sits further along the shore, with a fast casual seafood restaurant and docks for small boats.
Shot in Bayside
The CBS series The White Shadow filmed at Bayside High School for a third season episode in which Coach Reeves returns for his twentieth high school reunion. It also used the Bell Boulevard bridge over the Long Island Rail Road and the storefront of a stationery store on Bell Boulevard.
The White Shadow, 1980
Bayside High School
Coach Reeves comes home to Bayside for his class reunion in this episode. The production filmed the stone faced school building from 1936 on Corporal Kennedy Street.
What Bayside can double for
Levittown, New York
Levittown's original Cape Cod tract houses are the same postwar scale as Bayside's Cape and Colonial homes, built within the same decade on similarly narrow lots with driveways to the street. Many still carry their low pitched roofs and small dormers from the original design. Levittown's grid is wider and the driveways longer, so a tighter frame reads closer to Bayside's older streets. Try searching Cape Cod tract houses now.
Pinner, London
Pinner's mock Tudor semis along its Metro-land suburbs share the half timbering and steep gables of Bayside's own Tudor style houses, built for the same commuter family market. The scale is close, two storeys on a quiet residential road. English brick runs redder, and the road markings and postboxes need dressing out to hide the country. Try searching mock Tudor semis now.
Sherman Oaks' flat residential blocks carry the same single family scale and driveway to the street as Bayside's postwar houses, and its ranch style houses date from the same decades. Palm trees and year round green lawns give the coast away in a wide shot. Keep palm trees and hills out of frame, and favor an overcast day to avoid the harder California light. Try searching postwar ranch houses now.
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