The ''Queens Chronicle'' is a free weekly newspaper based in the

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neighborhood of

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. It was founded in November 1978 as ''The Paper'' by Susan Merzon. In 1984, it expanded beyond its

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constituency and was renamed the ''Queens Chronicle''. In 1994, the paper's offices suffered a devastating fire. The ''Chronicle'' has nine separate editions for various regions of

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. Every Thursday, new editions of the ''Chronicle'' are distributed at more than 950 locations throughout the

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. , the ''Chronicle'' publishes nine different weekly papers with a total circulation of 160,000, reaching 400,000 readers.

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