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Today, June 21, is the longest day of the year — meaning the one with the longest amount of sunlight — but it’s kind of a dreary one. Fear not! The weekend should be sunnier, and there’s plenty to do here in Queens. Here’s our weekly list of five possibilities.

PS 90Q, The Horace Mann School in Richmond Hill, was fortunate to receive a grant for the past two years to have their students participate in the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

Bartlett Dairy has gotten final approval to build a distribution center in Springfield Gardens that also will serve as the company’s new Queens corporate headquarters.

Bartlett and the New York City Economic Development Corp. announced on June 13 that the City Council granted “overwhelming approval” for the company’s application under the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.

ProHEALTH Dental and Senator Addabbo provided complimentary Oral Cancer Screenings at ProHEALTH Dental’s Howard Beach location on June 15th. Oral cancer is particularly dangerous, because the patient may not notice it in its early stages. It can frequently prosper without producing pain or symptoms. As a result, Oral Cancer often goes undetected until it has already metastasized to another location.

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The Department of Transportation, last Wednesday at Community Board 5, shared its plan for a bus lane on the southbound side of Fresh Pond Road between Metropolitan and Putnam avenues effective from 2 to 8 p.m.

A DOT spokesperson said in an effort to address concerns of businesses, parking will be permitted in the bus lane before 2 and after 8 p.m. and more parking is being installed to add more opportunities for customers shopping on the road to find spaces.

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The city’s latest project to improve safety along Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights isn’t even finished — but people are already beginning to benefit.

The Department of Transportation is in the process of building ten pedestrian islands between 70th and 92nd streets in the middle of the busy thoroughfare that are flush with the street level but have built-up curbing protecting on both ends.

Not much more than a year after they opened, the two Marriotts on the Horace Harding Expressway by 183rd Street in Fresh Meadows are for sale by owner East West Realty Development Group. Cushman and Wakefield is marketing the property, according to Crain’s, which first reported the story.

And some area residents are concerned about the buildings possibly becoming homeless shelters.

Mayor de Blasio, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), Council Finance Chairman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) and members of the City Council announced an agreement last Friday for an approximately $92.8 billion budget.

“The Fiscal Year 2020 Adopted Budget creates greater fairness for all New Yorkers,” de Blasio said. “We’ve reached an agreement that promises to create a pathway to pay parity for our early childhood education providers to address recruitment and retention issues, expands services that prevent unnecessary detention and fights the widespread national attack on access to abortion care.”