An asphalt plant in Queens at the center of long-running odor complaints is shutting down — at least temporarily — after state regulators said it failed to meet a deadline to raise the height of its smoke stacks.

"We don't want them to be a customer if they're going to pollute us and cause harm to us,” said Tom Mituzas, whose family home sits a few hundred feet from Green Asphalt.

He said the plant is responsible for a pervasive stench and thick smog that routinely blankets the neighborhood.

"I could be standing in front of my house and not see the corner because the smog is so intense. You taste it on your tongue, you taste it on the back of your throat, you feel it in your eyes, the tar smell, the burning tire smell,” Mituzas said.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation

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