William Trist Bailey (October 9, 1846, in Torquay – February 21, 1910, in New York City)[1] was a land developer who founded the community of Bayswater near Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City.
He purchased the land from the descendants of Richard Cornell in 1878,[2] and turned Bayswater into a fashionable residential neighborhood.
Streets in Bayswater which bear his name are Trist Place and Bailey Court.
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