The battery queue is becoming a neighborhood story.
Four substations in Queens now hold more than 1.8 gigawatts of storage requests, a backlog that planners say is reshaping local land-use hearings.
Quireline flags the strongest lead, keeps interview context attached, and warns when a sentence leans on a source older than the current filing.
A February planning memo calls the Sunnyside corridor the city's highest-risk bottleneck, while residents are asking for night-work limits and fire-response drills.