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Smoke Alarms Save Lives! Join us for a FDNY Smoke Alarms Fire Safety Education Event Save Lives! SUNDAY MARCH 1, 2020 Members of the FDNY Fire Target, 40 W 225 Street, Bronx, NY 10463 (11am-3pm) Safety Education Team will be Cross Island YMCA, 238-10 Hillside Avenue, Queens, NY distributing batteries and fire 11426 (10am-3pm) safety literature throughout the Target, 517 E 117th St, New York, NY 10035 (11am-3pm) five boroughs! MONDAY MARCH 2, 2020 Queens Center Mall (JC-Penny West Wing), 90-15 Queens FRIDAY MARCH 6, 2020 Blvd., Queens, NY 11373 (5-8pm) QUEENS ShopRite, 1080 McDonald Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11204 (4-8pm) Jamaica Centre Train Station, Parson Blvd and Archer Ave, Queens, NY 11433 (3-5pm) TUESDAY MARCH 3, 2020 61 Street Woodside Train Station, 61st Street and Bronx Terminal Market, 610 Exterior Street, Bronx, NY 10451 Roosevelt Ave, Queens, NY 11377 (3-5pm) (4-8pm) MANHATTAN Staten Island Mall, 2655 Richmond Avenue, Staten Island, Union Square Station, 14th Street and Broadway, New NY 10314 (4-8pm) York, NY 10003 (3-5pm) Target, 40-24 College Point Blvd, Queens, NY 11373 (5-8pm) W 125th Street Train Station, W. 125th Street and Broadway, New York, NY 10027 (3-5pm) WEDNESDAY MARCH 4, 2020 W 168th Street Train Station, W. 168th Street and Pathmark, 1525 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210 (4-8pm) Broadway, New York, NY 10032 (3-5pm) Bay Plaza Shopping Center, 2100 Bartow Avenue, Bronx, NY BRONX 10475 (4-8pm) E. 149th Street Train Station, E 149th Street and Grand Brooklyn (10am-2pm at each location) Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451 (3-5pm) Avenue M and E 16th Street Parkchester Train Station, Hugh J Grant Circle and Metropolitan Ave Bronx, NY 10472 (3-5pm) 13th Avenue and 53rd Street Lee Avenue and Williamsburg Street BROOKLYN Coney Island-Stilwell Avenue Train Station, Stillwell THURSDAY MARCH 5, 2020 Avenue and Mermaid Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11224 (3-5pm) Home Depot, 2501 Forest Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10303 Broadway Junction Train Station, Jamaica Ave and Fulton (10am-1pm) Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207 (3-5pm) Costco, 2975 Richmond Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314 Crown Heights Utica Avenue Train Station, Utica Avenue (10am-1pm) and Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11213 (3-5pm) SATURDAY MARCH 7, 2020 DON’T FORGET! Grand Street Train Station, Grand and Chrystie Streets, New York, NY 10002 (11am-3pm) Change Your Clocks... NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, 506 Lenox Avenue Change Your Batteries! New York, NY 10037 (11am-3pm) fdnysmart.org To Educate New Yorkers 022020-01.
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