{"id":184092,"date":"2026-04-03T02:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184092\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:22:12","slug":"earth-day-open-house-at-alley-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184092\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Open House At Alley Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alley Pond Environmental Center (APEC) is holding a free Open House &amp; Clothing Swap on Sunday, April 19th from 9am to 1pm for Earth Day.\u00a0 The Center is located at 229-10 Northern Boulevard, Douglaston.<\/p>\n<p>Gently USED clothing, towels, toys with no missing parts, backpacks and purses will be available while supplies last.\u00a0 At the same time, stop by the lobby to learn about live ambassador animals and programming.\u00a0 Feel free to go for a nature walk on trails directly behind the Center.<\/p>\n<p>Alley Pond Environmental Center (APEC), a non-profit organization in Northeast Queens, has been an educational oasis for environmental studies for 50 years. Our environmental education classes and programs are attended by over 50,000 children and adults every year, offering:<\/p>\n<p>Environmental education classes for adults and teens<br \/>\nNature themed school class trips to our Center<br \/>\nFun birthday parties that are also educational<br \/>\nGuided nature walks, etc. programs for adults and families<br \/>\nAnd a number of other topical programs that interest people of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-195373 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/APEC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"700\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alley Pond Environmental Center (APEC) is holding a free Open House &amp; Clothing Swap on Sunday, April 19th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-184092","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\/184092","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=184092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}