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2 teens dead following moped crash on Cross Island Parkway
Two teens who were riding a moped were killed in a crash on the Cross Island Parkway in Queens early Saturday.Police say the accident happened in the southbound lanes near 150th Street in Whitestone.The victims were discovered separately. Officers say they found a 19-year-old woman at the scene of the crash around 2:30 a.m., where she was pronounced dead. About 15 minutes after finding her, the NYPD received a report of a young man walking into Flushing Hospital with injuries from the same accident. The victim, a 15-year-old boy, died a short time later.The moped hit a barrier wall, and...
Junkies, migrant squatters turn NYC block into a crime-ridden nightmare, starting blaze with stolen e-bikes that torched 2 nearby homes
The worst of New York City’s worlds have collided on one Brooklyn block – where junkie squatters rented out an abandoned home to migrants, whose dozens of apparently stolen bikes and scooters sparked an inferno that scorched two neighboring homes, The Post has learned. But even the Aug. 17 conflagration couldn’t keep the squatters away from the East 36th Street abode in Marine Park. “For the next two days, people were coming back again and again,” a 45-year-old neighbor told The Post, even after the city boarded up the second-floor windows and poured cement across the first-floor doors and windows. Neighbors estimated...
Girl abducted from Queens supermarket, sources say
NEW YORK — A child was reunited with her grandmother after being abducted from a Queens supermarket Thursday, but police are still searching for the suspect, police sources say.Police sources tell CBS News New York the 9-year-old girl was led to the suspect's car in the Key Food supermarket parking lot on Jamaica Avenue in Queens Village. They returned about 25 minutes later.We're told the girl has been reunited with her grandmother, who was inside a bathroom at the supermarket when the crime took place.Police are now looking for a man in his 60s driving a brown Honda Civic, believed to be an older model with New York State license plates.Investigators are canvassing the neighborhood with surveillance images of the suspect. Anyone with any information about the case is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via their website or via DM on Twitter, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential.
18-Year-Old Is First Man Charged Under New Mask Ban Law In NYC
Earlier this summer New York State Governor Kathy Hochul implemented a mask ban after masked pro-Palestine protestors began harassing people in public around New York City and after doing so other cities and counties followed suit which led to this week’s first arrest under the controversial mask ban law.
Off-duty New York City employee arrested in Queens
QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — An off-duty NYPD auxiliary officer was arrested early Friday morning, according to the police. Ryehan Chubhahan, 34, was taken into custody in Queens just after 5 a.m. The auxiliary officer was charged with third-degree assault. Additional information regarding the arrest was not immediately available.
Woman struck by car in Queens, in critical condition: NYPD
OZONE PARK, Queens (PIX11) – A woman is fighting for her life after being struck by an SUV driver in Ozone Park, according to the NYPD. The 55-year-old was struck early Thursday morning as she crossed Cross Bay Boulevard near Pitkin Avenue, police said. She was rushed to an area hospital in critical condition, police […]
35-year-old motorcyclist in critical condition after falling off bridge in Rockaway Beach
A 35-year-old motorcyclist is in critical condition after falling off the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge in Queens on Wednesday.It happened just before 7:25 p.m. at Beach 92nd Street and Beach Channel Drive in Rockaway Beach.Police say the driver was riding a 2019 Kawasaki and traveling northbound on Cross Bay Bridge Boulevard when he failed to navigate a turn and fell from the bridge and onto the intersection.The driver was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition.MORE NEWS: Murder-suicide of 5 in Syosset stemmed from dispute over will of deceased mother, sale of her homeChantee Lans reports on an adult son distraught over the possible sale of his recently deceased mother's home.----------* More Queens news* Send us a news tip* Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts * Follow us on YouTube
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