Welcome to the Bayswater Civic Association

We hold public meetings from September through June at the Bayswater Jewish Center located at 2355 Healy Avenue corner of Dickens Street, Far Rockaway NY 11691.

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Some updates (as of March 4, 2023):

• Next Meeting
• Deed Theft
• Squatters
• Election
• Cronavirus
• Mail Delivery
• Other Information

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Upcoming Meetings:

Next Meeting - Tuesday, September 30 - 7:00 PM. <= Note time.

Bayswater Civic Association - Open Meeting - This is our next scheduled meeting.

• We expect our guest speaker to be Leslie Wright, NYC Regional Director, NYS Parks, Recreation and HistoricalPreservation.  

As usual, the meeting will be held at the Bayswater Jewish Center -

Dickens Street and Healy Avenue, Far Rockaway 11691

Note that the NYPD has replaced Neighborhood Coordinating Officers with Q-Teams - Quality of Life Officers.  There are now da and evening Q-Teams.  See the NYPD page for more information

 ===> See our What’s New Page - the City of Yes for the City Planning Commission’s proposed changes to further “improve” Rockaway.

===> Note: There are several questions on the ballot in November.  They will have a critical effect on how much influence our community has in the city’s decisions on what to build.  More information to follow.

Our precinct’s commanding officer, Captain George Ng generally attends and reports on police activities in the area.  We don’t expect that our Neighborhood Coordination Officers, Sarah Danzig and Vincent Trovato to attend because Monday is their day off, and the NCO Sergeant, Rob Luckmann, will attend.

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Deed Theft <===

There have been a number of reports of deed theft in the news recently.  Deed theft occurs when someone writes up a document transferring your property and forges your name.  The NYC City Register, part of the Department of Finance, has a program so that you can sign up to receive a notification if any document is filed against your property.  Go to their web site at https://www.nyc.gov/assets/finance/jump/recordingdocs.shtml to register your property.

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Squatters <===

There have been incidents where someone moves into a property and after 30 days the law considered them a tenant. That made it exceptionally difficult to remove them. The NYS Real Property Law, section 711, was recently amended to make removing squatters easier.

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Election

• Selvena Brooks-Powers is the Councilmember representing the eastern portion of the Rockaways.

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Virus

Get vaccinated (all updates).  And get tested.  The new booster that protects against the latest strains of the virus is now available for everyone, regardless of age.

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Mail Delivery

Is your mail delivery just plain rotten?  The Postal [non] Service has a program called Informed Delivery.  You can sign up for it here.  You will then receive an e-mail every day telling you what mail to expect.  But you can no longer  go to the web site to report that you did not receive the mail.  Probably too many complaints.

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Other Information

See below for information on the Peninsula Hospital site.

The association’s revised by-laws are available by clicking here.

You can learn about the vatrious development plans on our What’s New page, and here.

Be sure to thank Donovan Richards for the city’s plans to “revitalize” the Village, or “Downtown Far Rockaway” as they call the project.  For info, see our What’s New page, here.

Note that the plans don’t do much to revitalize downtown Far Rockaway but do include over 3,000 new housing units in buildings as tall as 15 stories.

If you would like to be added to our e-mail list, send an e-mail with your full name to newsletter@bayswatercivic.org or click here.

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