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Environmental Protection Agency

Child with mask during poor air quality and smoke filled skies in Queens
AMNY

AIR QUALITY ALERT: New Yorkers warned to stay inside as dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires covers the city

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Alley Pond Environmental Center honors three for their environmental work at annual Green Gala

By Ethan Marshall
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Glendale

Glendale-based freight railway named EPA ‘Smart Way’ partner

By Bill Parry
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Ridgewood

Demolition of Ridgewood radiation site buildings mark the beginning of major remediation

By Mark Hallum
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Astoria senator’s bill would require more stringent lead tests in school & park water systems

By QNS News Team
The Newtown Creek at the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge on the Long Island City/Brooklyn border
Long Island City

From green industry to waterfront parks, activists plan a cleaner future for Newtown Creek in Queens

By Robert Pozarycki
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Ridgewood

EPA finalizes plan to demolish businesses and apartments on Ridgewood’s radioactive site

By Anthony Giudice
Queens clean engine
Glendale

Taxpayer money for clean diesel engines went down the wrong track in Glendale’s Fresh Pond Rail Yard

By Anthony Giudice
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Ridgewood

Radioactive Ridgewood site added to Superfund list

By QNS News Team
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Ridgewood

Radioactive Ridgewood site may get cleaned up

By Liam La Guerre
Photo Courtesy of Congressmember Carolyn Maloney

Investigate clean up of Newtown Creek

By Michael Pantelidis

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Louis Armstrong Legacy Monthly Jazz Jams
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Nov. 13, 3 pm

La Biblioteca Pública de Queens ofrece talleres de arte
Far Rockaway Library

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Anna Maria Villa sings at Vetro Restaurant & Lounge
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Haunted Like Human w/ Pleasant Peasant & Early Worm
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Take Root Presents: Hannah Louise Barnard & Emily Marie Pope | Jasmine Canziani/JasmineSaraChoreography
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Following the success of his debut hour 
Nov. 14, 8 pm

New York Comedy Festival presents: Natan Badalov – Chosen Fam
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4th annual 5k for Davide in Astoria

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  • Cops are looking for these suspects who allegedly slashed three people after an argument escalated into violence in front of a Burger King on Roosevelt Avenue in Corona. Suspects sought for slashing three people during beef in front of Corona Burger King: NYPD
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  • zoria $20.5 million secured for refinancing of newly constructed Zoria Tower in Jamaica
  • Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz secured an indictment against a Staten Island couple and their accomplice for falsifying documents to steal more than $550,000 from a Baydide bank. Mortgage fraudsters steal more than a half-million dollars from Bayside bank: DA
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  • magic shadows Flushing Town Hall bringing global art, jazz and magic to Queens in November
  • Ridgewood's Stone Circle Theater recently hosted Dharma Swara (DS), a Balinese dance and music group based in the neighborhood. Photo by Patrick Stachniak. Ridgewood: A hidden gem in New York’s arts and culture scene

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