Meanwhile, at Queens Market in East London, Muhammad Shahid Nazir was busy doing what he did best: attracting customers to his fish stall by singing his catchy tune One Pound Fish.
The stations affected are Pollokshields East, Queens Park, Crosshill, Mount Florida and Cathcart.
It will accommodate Long Island Rail Road trains that now bypass Manhattan's East Side as they roll east through Queens and straight to Pennsylvania Station on the island's West Side.
The next wave of 40 stations to come online by the first quarter of 2014 will be heavily used stops in Midtown East and Queens, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, while the service is expected to be rolled out to the remaining stations by 2017.
They take the elephants off, and they walk them through the Queens Midtown Tunnel underneath the East River, along 34th Street to Madison Square Garden.
New York's team say no venue will be more than 20 miles from the Olympic village, at the centre of the X on the East River in Queens.
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The rig was working on what will be a 25-story building near the East River in Queens' Long Island City neighborhood, behind a large neon Pepsi-Cola sign that serves as a local landmark.
Miss Velazquez, whose 57%-Latino district snakes from the lower East Side of Manhattan through Queens and Brooklyn, concentrates on immigration.
Elsewhere, waters rushed into two of the four tunnels used by the Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak and NJ Transit under the East River between Manhattan and Queens.
Today, "downtown dance" has stretched down to Brooklyn and up to Queens, so Mr. Varone is luring its denizens back to the Upper East Side.
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An MTA spokesman said late Monday night that water had reached into all five subway tubes that stretch under the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn and the Steinway tube between Midtown and Queens.
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The Procession of Queens is performed by the young girls of the village of Gorjani in the Slavonia region of north-east Croatia every spring.
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