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Mets volunteers join with community to build a playground in Far Rockaway

By amNewYork Posted on May 30, 2019

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About 150 volunteers from the Mets, the Child Center of NY and the community joined KaBOOM! on Thursday to transform an empty site into a kid-designed, state-of-the-art playground at the Dix Avenue Apartments in Queens. (Credit: Corey Sipkin)

About 150 volunteers from the Mets, the Child Center of NY and the community joined KaBOOM! on Thursday to transform an empty site into a kid-designed, state-of-the-art playground at the Dix Avenue Apartments in Queens.

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