Bowery Bay is a bay off the

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. It is located near the Ditmars Steinway area in the neighborhood of Astoria in the New York City borough of

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. It is bordered on the west by the Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plant and on the south and east by

LaGuardia Airport LaGuardia Airport ( ) – colloquially known as LaGuardia or simply LGA – is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, situated on the North Shore (Long Island), northwestern shore of Long Island, bord ...

. Before the construction of LaGuardia Airport in the late 1920s, the shoreline of Bowery Bay and Flushing Bay, originally called Bowery Bay Beach and later North Beach, was a popular seaside resort. North Beach was the site of a popular amusement park from 1895 to 1915 and was known as "the Coney Island of Queens". The

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at LaGuardia Airport was originally constructed along the south end of Bowery Bay to accommodate

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s. From 1940 until 1945, 'Clippers' operated by

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provided trans-Atlantic flights from Bowery Bay to Europe. The eastern edge of Bowery Bay is currently bordered by LaGuardia Airport's

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terminal. The western edge of Bowery Bay is the site of the Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plant, a

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operated by the

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. The plant opened in 1939 and is capable of treating of sewage per day from northwestern Queens. Luyster Creek, a

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, empties into Bowery Bay near the water plant. The Rikers Island Bridge spans the northern portion of Bowery Bay.

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Bays of New York (state) Bays of Queens County, New York East Elmhurst, Queens {{QueensNY-geo-stub