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Residents Say Souped-Up Cars Gathering At Mall Parking Lot In Queens Are Creating A Noisy Headache

Some residents say activity at a mall parking lot is keeping them up all hours of the night.

(CBS Local)

October 11, 2020 at 11:45 pm

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s a story you’ll see only on CBS2. There’s a noise nuisance in Queens.

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Some residents say activity at a mall parking lot is keeping them up all hours of the night, and they tell reporter Lisa Rozner no one is helping.

They said it sounds like gunshots and even registers on the Citizen App that way.

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“It’s terrible,” said Rudy Sarchese, president of the Astoria Homeowners, Tenants and Business Civic Association.

But it turns out that sound is souped-up cars rolling into a strip mall parking lot on 37th Street between 19th and 20th avenues in Astoria.

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