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Feds arrest city worker from Elmhurst who allegedly helped operate drug lab out of Long Island home

Elmhurst

Feds arrest city worker from Elmhurst who allegedly helped operate drug lab out of Long Island home

By Robert Pozarycki

Police officers outside the Mastic, Long Island, home that doubled as a drug lab allegedly operated in part by Elmhurst's Joseph Guida.

Elmhurst

Feds arrest city worker from Elmhurst who helped operate a drug lab out of a Long Island home

By Robert Pozarycki

Ecological upgrades clean up polluted Flushing Bay

Flushing

Ecological upgrades clean up polluted Flushing Bay

By Carlotta Mohamed

Koo to host rain barrel giveaway at Queens Botanical Garden

Flushing

Koo to host rain barrel giveaway at Queens Botanical Garden

By Carlotta Mohamed

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Flushing

Register now to pick up your free rain barrel in Flushing next month

By Emily Davenport

Construction crews digging a sewer trench in Williamsburg.

City wraps up a major sewer & water main replacement project near Whitestone Expwy. in Flushing

By Robert Pozarycki

The Newtown Creek water treatment plant, with the creek in the foreground.

Astoria

City urges Queens residents to ‘Wait’ before flushing toilets & washing clothes during rain events

By Robert Pozarycki

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Jamaica

Numerous Queens neighborhoods had the most alarm noise complaints in city, report finds

By QNS News Team

Addabbo wants action on drug disposal bill

Addabbo wants action on drug disposal bill

By Bill Parry

Bioswale

Maspeth

Even as residents disapprove, city installs nearly 300 new bioswales in Maspeth, Ridgewood and Sunnyside

By Anthony Giudice

This small pond at MacNeil Park in College Point is apparently full of raw sewage.

Stinky sewage spring laden with harmful bacteria popped up in a College Point park

By Robert Pozarycki

City starts construction on Rosedale sewer upgrades

Rosedale

City starts construction on Rosedale sewer upgrades

By Patrick Donachie

City will update public on SE Queens flooding fixes

Jamaica

City will update public on SE Queens flooding fixes

By Patrick Donachie

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Maspeth

Maspeth resident fumes over bioswale put in front of her home with no notice

By Anthony Giudice

Oysters returning to Jamaica Bay

Politics

Oysters returning to Jamaica Bay

By Patrick Donachie

Elected officials hold Richmond Hill rain barrel giveaway

By Patrick Donachie

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Glendale

Defective and dangerous sewers are finally being addressed in Ridgewood, Glendale, Middle Village and Maspeth

By Anthony Giudice

City explores bioswales to reduce flooding in Murray Hill

City explores bioswales to reduce flooding in Murray Hill

By Mark Hallum

Glen Oaks

Glen Oaks gets upgrades on flood management

By Mark Hallum

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Ridgewood

You’ll be stunned by the million-dollar transformation of this once-empty lot next to a Ridgewood school

By Anthony Giudice

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Maspeth

Construction of 321 bioswales begins in Ridgewood, Maspeth and Sunnyside

By Anthony Giudice

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A major Middle Village sewer project designed to stop flooding woes is finally set to begin

By Ridgewood Times Staff

The Feb. 8 to 9 coastal storm that hit New York City brought flooding to Howard Beach and the Rockaways.

Recent coastal flooding in south Queens prompts calls to reduce flood risks

By Robert Pozarycki

Arts & Entertainment

Hundreds take Valentine’s Day tour of a waste treatment plant

By Bill Parry

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