From NY1:The American Lung Association finds that the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan are the dirtiest counties in the state when it comes to particle pollution.
According to their 10th annual State of the Air report, 65 percent of New York State residents live in counties where air pollution levels endanger lives.
The report acknowledges substantial progress against air pollution in many parts of the country, but not in most major cities.
The New York metropolitan area ranks 17th on the list of most polluted cities by ozone, 16th worst on the list of U.S. cities polluted by short-term particle pollution, 22nd on the list of cities most polluted by year-round particle pollution.
City officials have not yet commented on the report.
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Let's pack a few hundred thousand more people and their cars into Queens.....................
From Astoria...We're number 1
We're number 1
We're number 1
*cough*, *cough*, thud.
does not surprise me i can see the LIE from my house and i'm always amazed how many people drive into the city, where the hell do they all park? and the bronx you got everyone from westchester and upstate coming in. take transit and stop polluting the air.
Yeah...mass transit.
There's so many people demanding goods here that diesel truck traffic has exponentially increased with the population.
If General Motors (and the other gasoline consuming vehicle manufacturers) didn't sandbag our most efficient rail system (in the 1940s?) we could now be using trucks only to offload goods from the Sunnyside Yards, Atlantic Yards, West Side Yards, etc.
Rail shipping and truck transfer is still the best and cleanest way to move products across our nation.
AND WE'D ALL BE BREATHING BETTER!
So f--k you GM, and Chrysler!
It's payback time!
You deserve to go bankrupt!
Thank La Famiglia Di Vallone for allowing the existence of famed "asthma alley"!
CB#1...
the community board from hell!
Con Ed...
the utility from hell!
Thank La Famiglia Di Vallone for allowing the existence of famed "asthma alley"!
CB#1...
the community board from hell!
Con Ed...
the utility from hell!
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I guess the thinking is that if those people are stupid enough to shoehorn another 100,000 in their community (while everyone else is really downzoning) than that is their problem.
No, its yours.
The standing stupidity of that community is not a joke.
All of Queens lives downwind from it.
If a community mismanages its affairs, as Astoria always seems to do, it blowsback in your faces.
"Queens 1 of top 3 dirtiest counties in NYS"
Clever headline.
But what does it mean?
There will always be 3 dirtiest counties in NYC. That was true in the 1700s as well.
The real question is are there health risks involved. How does Queens measure up against EPA standards?
How does Queens measure up against EPA standards?
Very badly. Obvious, if you read the part where they discuss threats to health.
Went on astorians.com this morning.
The prattle is looking for a cleaning woman,
the oddly high housing costs (its from absentee landlords converting your community into human warehouses you f*ken idiots),
possible fraud in a thrift store,
gym issues
and a large spider found in a fruit shipment on the holy of holies, sacred Ditmars Blvd.
The community is going down the tubes, and like a local community board meeting, or writing letters to the local paper, you just can't say or do anything that stirs the surface of the oily thick suffocating liquid that goes for public discource in that part of the city.
Nothing Crap talks about is ever discussed there.
Stupid is as stupid does, but remember, you are downwind (and uptown in the transit network) from the brain dead.
Every developer in the city uses that community as a testing ground before they take their final product to your backyard.
Oh, puh-lease.
Numbers out of context always give the peanut gallery something to chatter aimlessly about.
Focus, kids. Focus.
Oh, puh-lease.
Numbers out of context always give the peanut gallery something to chatter aimlessly about.
Focus, kids. Focus.
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Yes, I am glad you said that, now lets go to this weeks Gazette to see what we have been fed:
1. Front Page: Protecting Neighborhood Character, talking about the massive rezoning of Astoria where 6 story buildings will be lining the el (we know who will be living in there!), a carefully chorographed script where a city planner shows up and listens to your complains and sagely nods agreement (whompa, this will take care of your problem). A photo of Vallone's furrowed brow adds a nice touch that HE is working for YOUR community.
2. Page 2 Street renaming for Manton. (Lets not even waste time there) - Gioia and Dekker are in photo.
3. Page 5 Other hospitals step in for Mary Immac, St John (see, problem solved)
4. Page 7 Maloney (photo) in credit card reform with fellow hack Pelosi (photo) commenting on "her tenancous work" - ah oh, do I feel yet another plaque to be awarded?
5. Vallone photo on page 12
6. Gianaris photo on page 14
7. Vallone on page 15
8. Vallone photo on page 18
9. Vallone photo on page 20
10. Crowley photo on page 22
etc etc etc
Any wonder why they are brain dead?
To previous poster:
You give new meaning to the words "oily thick suffocating liquid that goes for public discource in that part of the city".
Astoria: one of the most overrated neighborhoods in Queens. Everyone and his illegal grandmother want to live in Astoria...
this is so true, everytime i go to vegas i lose all my acne as in instantly a day l8er. so as wen i go 2 jersey or boston. dis juz shows leavin new york city is da best acne treatment, it def must b d air. da subways is da worst, ppol's sweats & breaths trapped underground wer rats dies in tracks & garbage are expedited not 2 mention wer hobos live.
"Queens 1 of top 3 dirtiest counties in NYS"
"Clever headline.
But what does it mean?
There will always be 3 dirtiest counties in NYC. That was true in the 1700s as well."
Thank you!!!!
Everyone on here is mentioning Astoria alot. While I agree, Astoria has its dirt and grime, the article mentioned big bad MANHATTAN and the Bronx as well. not just Astoria(Queens). And obviously we are going to be the most polluted, we have the most people living in our counties.
Is anyone surprised that we have more pollution than hudson or westchester counties? I mean come on people. As another poster said...FOCUS. You have to look at the big picture. We are closest to the CBD (Manhattan), which correct me if I am wrong has been a big polluter since its founding. All the factories that lined the water?? remember? The same goes for the Bronx and Queens. Does anyone have better suggestions for which other NYS counties should be dirtier than the top 3 listed? It sucks, but look at where the business is, and access to transportation of goods, and population. It makes sense...its sucks but makes sense.
There's miles and miles and miles of geography between Astoria and northeast Queens with
plenty of trees and greenery out here to soak up pollution.
Our air quality readings are good!
It's really YOUR PROBLEM out west!
By the way, you Ass-torians, when was the last time we saw any of your faces out east to support our causes?
Never...I think!
C-mon...stop jerkin' our chains!
Astoria has some of the highest particulate pollution due to the presence of large, obsolescent electrical generating plants. That is why we, and the nearby Bronx are known as "Asthma Alley."
There's miles and miles and miles of geography between Astoria and northeast Queens with
plenty of trees and greenery out here to soak up pollution.
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f*ken moron.
Flushing Bay sewage and LaGuardia Aiport.
Don't know what is stupider, a village peasant in Astoria or a Bayside biddie with her head stuck up her arse.
Hey, I'm third generation Astorian and I'm no "Village Peasant." I have probably fought more corruption in the last 2 years than you have in your life.
Don't disrespect an entire community. It is bigoted and ignorant. Would your IQ suddenly drop if you moved into Astoria to tend to a mother or aunt who still lived here? Would you become a genius when you moved out?
It's not the old-timers who wrecked this neighborhood. It was fine when I was growing up. What wrecked us is the new crowd who consume anything that is good, destroy it and then move on.
It's not the old-timers who wrecked this neighborhood. It was fine when I was growing up. What wrecked us is the new crowd who consume anything that is good, destroy it and then move on.
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You know those walls are off the decades old cafes as well as anyone.
You know the long term members of community board that made illegal conversions the mantra of Astoria as well as anyone.
You know its the same aging names in Astoria Civic over and over again as well as anyone.
The old guard was great until they lost faith in the community. Now, as someone said, they are busy ripping out the pipes.
Sad. Sorry if the truth hurts.
We aare surrounded by airports............ jet fueul is similar to diesel,lots of sulphur dioxide and particulates.....yum.
It is a brave new world of news and information on the web.
If you are a doddering senior that knee-jerk votes for the Democratic clubhouse, and you still having fond memories of Roosevelt and the New Deal, you will never change.
The Queens weekly papers are aimed at you.
But for a growing segment of the population, with access to blogs and the web, a growing credibility gap, indeed, a yawning credibility gap starts to separate us from the Blumturds and the 'Honest Joe' Crowleys and the community boards and Albany delegation, and city council:
Factoid #1:
Power plants are closing around the city --
http://imnotsayin.blogspot.com/2008/04/con-ed-admits-brooklyn-power-plant-is.html
Kent Street Brooklyn demolished
http://www.plannyc.org/taxonomy/term/723
Manhattan Closing
Factoid 2#
Power plants are being dumped on one neighborhood in Queens, Astoria, and at an increasing pace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Allis
Big Allis 1965
http://www.nypa.gov/facilities/poletti.htm
Poletti 1977
http://www.power-technology.com/projects/500mw/
New Power Plant 2005
http://www.qgazette.com/news/2008/0430/features/023.html
New Power Plant 2011
http://www.gothamgazette.com/searchlight/dist22.shtml
Factoid #3:
Astoria now produces 60% of the city's power.
Factoid #4:
Astoria, with its sleazy cafe culture, wastes energy by pumping $1000 of dollars of air conditioning on to sidewalks each day.
Factoid #5:
Astoria, with its all but official policy of illegal conversions, makes for an inefficient overwhelmed grid that endangers the community.
Factoid #6:
On the East River, Astoria is one big fat unguarded terrorist target with all these plants
Factoid #7:
Add LaGuardia Airport, down wind from Manhattan, the Grand Central, and most damning to your local leadership, thousands and thousands of more people adding more and more idling cars and trucks each month. Astoria is a dangerous place to live, particularly to kids. Take a look at how the pollution is bleaching white the street signs near those plants. Great for your kids, eh?
Factoid #8:
Astoria's leadership may pay lip service, but they really don't care about this issue. For if they did, they would not be adding to the problem by still gearing up to shoehorn 10,000s of additional new people.
Guess where the power plants will be in the future?
They aint going out to Bayside. THOSE people (like the 90% of the rest of the city) are down zoning.
Flushing Bay is miles away..dumb ass!
I was talking NORTHEAST.
And we're NOT in La Guardia's main fight path.
JEALOUS?
You are right - 6 miles as the crow flys.
NY might get pollution plumes from the midwest, but the ivy covered walls of NE Queens (The land where people brag on how long its been since they were in Manhattan)remains well out of harms way.
freakin idiot.
What a distinction for our own little corner of the world. I hope we are all just beaming with pride!
What a distinction for our own little corner of the world. I hope we are all just beaming with pride!
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"Astoria's leadership may pay lip service, but they really don't care about this issue. For if they did, they would not be adding to the problem by still gearing up to shoehorn 10,000s of additional new people."
Not a product of nature's bounty old boy, but a product of our choices.
Let every man rise or fall to his own master.
Way to stick together, Queens!
Way to stick together, Queens!
YES, LETS ALL MARCH IN LOCKSTEP AS DICTATED BY THE MACHINE.
I think a strong community is one that has an active role in its direction - not one standing around passivily waiting for its head to be handed to it.
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