{"id":146135,"date":"2026-02-26T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146135\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:48:32","slug":"queens-politicians-middle-village-community-rally-against-battery-energy-storage-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146135\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens politicians, Middle Village community rally against battery energy storage facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Lithium battery factory. The lithium-ion facility. A \u201cmini-Chernobyl.\u201d Just some of the names the <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/middle-village\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Middle Village<\/a> community has heard referring to the proposed Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), located on 69th Place. After two protests \u2014 with a third planned on Feb. 26 \u2014 and one proposed State bill attempting to supersede City zoning regulation: the entire Queens community has rallied against just one of these facilities due to its placement across the street from PS 255Q and nearby residences for fears of safety and health effects from hazardous chemicals, fires and noise pollution.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement signed by Council Member Phil Wong, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, state Sen. Joseph Addabbo and Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi said:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/02\/bess-hysteria-middle-village-battery-energy-storage-facility\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tBESS Hysteria: Queens politicians, Middle Village community rally against battery energy storage facility &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Lithium battery factory. The lithium-ion facility. A \u201cmini-Chernobyl.\u201d Just some of the names the Middle Village community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[14494,22957,24426,2609,2610,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,10100],"class_list":["post-146135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-bess","tag-health-news","tag-kids-education","tag-middle-village","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-ridgewood-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}