Air Quality in Queens (New York, Portland: neighborhood, live, airport)

[madmj]

Hello, I was hoping to get some local info on the air quality relative to Queens. I am coming from L.A. ( the valley ) and I haven't been able to find a website where I could compare the two. If you have any info. on what the current state of the air pollution quality is I would love to hear it. Thanks in advance!

[apvbguy]

Originally Posted by madmj

Hello, I was hoping to get some local info on the air quality relative to Queens. I am coming from L.A. ( the valley ) and I haven't been able to find a website where I could compare the two. If you have any info. on what the current state of the air pollution quality is I would love to hear it. Thanks in advance!

whenever I go back to queens, I can smell the airport from miles away, that cannot be good.
Queens does not suffer from the inversions like LA but the air quality isn't exactly good

[BOOARISKY]

Queens air quality isn't as bad as Manhattan or LA for that matter. But I would say that Eastern Queens along the Long Island Border is a little bit better than west or south Queens.

[Castro Viejo]

Originally Posted by madmj

Hello, I was hoping to get some local info on the air quality relative to Queens. I am coming from L.A. ( the valley ) and I haven't been able to find a website where I could compare the two. If you have any info. on what the current state of the air pollution quality is I would love to hear it. Thanks in advance!

Believe it or not, the worst air quality in New York City is not in urban, congested Manhattan or small-town Queens (with two major, international airports), but on suburban Staten Island! The last American Lung Association survey of air pollution put Staten Island almost right up there with Los Angeles.

So wherever you go in New York City, unless it's Staten Island, you'll find air quality to be immensely better than L.A. Having lived in L.A. for a while, New York air is much nicer. We don't have as many smog days at all.

[Hustla718]

Originally Posted by Castro Viejo

Believe it or not, the worst air quality in New York City is not in urban, congested Manhattan or small-town Queens (with two major, international airports), but on suburban Staten Island! The last American Lung Association survey of air pollution put Staten Island almost right up there with Los Angeles.

So wherever you go in New York City, unless it's Staten Island, you'll find air quality to be immensely better than L.A. Having lived in L.A. for a while, New York air is much nicer. We don't have as many smog days at all.

Staten Island? I doubt it. Why?

The worst air in NYC is uptown Manhattan and the southern and western areas of the Bronx. Bad as the worst air anywhere in LA.

However that's part of city life, bad air. What you will want to avoid though is large areas with extremely bad air (like the areas mentioned) and areas close to highways (you don't want a window facing a highway).

[madmj]

I imagine it's got to be better than my current situation. I live off a major 4 lane road about 1/2 mile away from an airport. I don't smoke cigarettes and I constantly hack up stuff from my lungs. When I walk around my neighborhood and look up 85% of the time the sky is tinted brown/yellow.

I was reading an article from 2003 that said Queens,NY was in the bottom 10% for air quality. That shocked me because I had never heard that before. I just hope it is an improvement over L.A. that's a good start for me!

[Hustla718]

Originally Posted by madmj

I imagine it's got to be better than my current situation. I live off a major 4 lane road about 1/2 mile away from an airport. I don't smoke cigarettes and I constantly hack up stuff from my lungs. When I walk around my neighborhood and look up 85% of the time the sky is tinted brown/yellow.

I was reading an article from 2003 that said Queens,NY was in the bottom 10% for air quality. That shocked me because I had never heard that before. I just hope it is an improvement over L.A. that's a good start for me!

Honestly if air quality is a concern, you might want to look into a smaller city or a rural area. Maybe even a greener city like Portland.

NYC is not going to win any medals based on pollution, it's filthy. That's what happens when you cram 8 million people into an area only about 400 square miles. Waste accumilates. The culture and acceptance of filth doesn't help things either.

If you do move to NYC, make sure you stay away from the areas I mentioned in my post considering they have the very worst air in the city. Queens does have better air quality then the more urban boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. So at least that gives you something to start with.

[madmj]

Thanks Hustla. It's not a huge issue, I was just trying to get a pulse on the situation. More than anything I was just shocked after reading the article. I have friends and family in the surrounding area and no one has ever mentioned this before. Whereas here, the first thing people say is " Why is the air foggy". It's outright disgusting. After washing my jeep, I got one good day until it's covered with sludge and dirt. That's no joke.