{"id":165500,"date":"2026-03-16T22:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165500\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:14:49","slug":"the-charged-fight-over-battery-storage-comes-to-a-historic-black-neighborhood-in-queens-new-york-city-news-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165500\/","title":{"rendered":"The Charged Fight Over Battery Storage Comes to a Historic Black Neighborhood in Queens \u2013 New York City News Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

asmine Lawrence remembers spending her childhood summers in Addisleigh Park at her grandfather\u2019s house, and seeing a jazz pianist\u2019s daughter walk down the block. Her grandfather moved into the neighborhood in the 1950s, joining a community of prominent jazz musicians and athletes who helped make this corner of Southeast Queens a historic Black enclave that has since gained\u00a0landmark status<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She was shocked to learn last summer that a large battery storage site was set to start building on a former gas station steps from the home she owns.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy house is only about 10 feet from the area,\u201d she said. She mentioned she was concerned because there have been fires at other battery storage facilities in the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you lay your kid\u2019s head down knowing that there\u2019s potential danger, deadly danger 10 feet away? That\u2019s not OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an effort to meet New York state\u2019s clean-energy mandate, the city has approved battery storage facilities across the five boroughs. NineDot Energy, the developer behind this 4.9-megawatt site, stores renewable energy in lithium-ion batteries for use when the city\u2019s grid needs a boost. The proposed project, at 179-21 Linden Blvd., is adjacent to multiple homes and across the street from the St. Albans VA Medical Center.<\/p>\n

Read the full story on City & State New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"asmine Lawrence remembers spending her childhood summers in Addisleigh Park at her grandfather\u2019s house, and seeing a jazz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-165500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165500","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=165500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}