In May 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency officially designated Irving Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens a Superfund site. The neighborhood, which The New Yorker dubbed, "The Most Radioactive Place in New York City," boasts a population of around 90,637, including Svetlana Ilina, a die-hard NYCFC fan who has been supporting her childhood club "since the beginning."

And the 17-year old, self-described "City till I die" super fan, won’t let her noxious surroundings stop her from ripping on the "toxic waste dump" of New Jersey that her team’s rival, The New York Red Bulls, call home.

Ms. Ilina, who must trudge daily through deadly gamma radiation that emanates from thorium sludge discarded over 60 years ago from the former home of the Wolff-Alport Chemical Company, wouldn’t be caught dead in "dirty jerz" as she puts it.  But the soccer fanatic is making an exception this weekend for the first ever New York Derby.

The Ridgewood native, whose bedroom window abuts the Fresh Yard Pond, a grimy and polluted storage facility for the M train on the NYC Subway, joked to Once a Metro that she would "be suited up in a Hazmat suit when she boards the filthy, contaminated PATH train" to the game on Sunday.

Ms. Ilina, whose water supply frequently mixes with raw sewage and carcinogenic runoff "can’t wait to show those toxic avenger New Jersey Pink Cows how clean, civilized people live."  She added, "Yes, my entire family has moved out to Jersey, but I try to avoid that dump."

Our interview was cut short when Ms. Ilina’s mother interrupted our session and asked her daughter to escort her to her weekly radiation therapy session.

(This is obviously parody…sort of)