From the NY Post:A man was found murdered early this morning inside Astoria Park and cops are questioning two people in connection with the crime.
Ruben Vargas, 32, was found by police unconscious inside the park at 19th Street near Ditmars
A 28-year-old woman and her 31-year-old male companion were found nearby and they were taken in for questioning, said police.
The NYC Medical Examiner has determined that Vargas had been strangled and struck in the head and his death has been ruled a homicide, police said.
The woman and her male acquaintance were still being questioned at the 114th Precinct this afternoon but they have not been charged with a crime, police said. Cops are still working to determine a motive for the murder.
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pls correct article its ditmars blvd not avenue
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Misdemeanor murder.
I was getting ready to write a post on this very subject because the amount of noise that was being made over the 4th of July weekend on Shore Blvd at like 3, 3:30 in the morning was unbelievable.
I actually walked over to the river to see what on earth was going on one of those nights (probably not the safest idea now that I'm reading about a murder)
There were more than a hundred people, primarily young latinos/latinas hanging out on the street, blasting music out of industrial sized speakers, breaking bottles and shooting off fireworks.
I must have called the cops three or four times that night. They would respond and temporarily break up the action.
But all the partiers would just drive around the block until the cops left and then go right back to what they were doing.
Calm down people, save the dramatics. Get over it already. Astoria is still a very safe neighborhood.
I am sure this Mr. Vargas has a rap sheet,can't really think of a good reason to be in the park at 3:34am.
It's not like a productive and upstanding member of society was killed in Astoria Park.
Having lived across the street from the Park for twelve years now, I can say that I have never witnessed the amount of crowds, noise, trash etc. as this year. A couple of reasons may be that other pools in the city have closed and Astoria Pool has attracted more people and that there has been a long heatwave simultaneously.
Shore Blvd should be renamed Sh-t Blvd. It is truly disgusting. I agree that it should be closed to cars.
The line for the pool goes right down to Hoyt Avenue now and they stand on the sidewalk. I picked up six bags of trash in one morning which was only stuff left in the gutters for three blocks. I was especially disgusted by the amount of dirty diapers.
This has to end soon or Astoria will experience a turnaround and people will begin to move out.
I have only lived directly opposite the park for twelve years, I have lived in the area since I was 13 and I am now in my 50's. Quite frankly, I hated the crowds, trash, noise then and I hate it now.
Then - endless letters to Peter Vallone Sr., the Community Board, the Parks Commissioner etc.
Now - endless letters to Peter Vallone Jr, the Community Board, the Parks Commissioner.
I guess nothing changes here in Astoria.
born and raised in Astoria , around the mid 80's till the early 90's the strip was the place to go on a warm summer night . You would get a great breeze and it was bumper to bumper full of guidos in irocs and eldorados pumping freestyle ...
Thats it, get off topic....
astoria is a cesspool
as is 99% of queens
can't wait to leave
Anyone can conjure up a tale of the days of the Parkside Gents?
Astorian#2 seems to think Astoria is a generally safe community. Astorian#3 blames car traffic for the the park's problem. Astorian#4 would rather discuss cruising. This is like the story about the blind men and the elephant. With these three viewpoints no wonder the neighborhood has gotten worse.
Anyhoo, let's get back to the murder in the park....
The electeds should ask that the park become an Operation Impact zone.
Hey Crappy, nice idea .... and since Astoria is a no - go zone for community preservation issues they have never heard of stuff like "Operation Impact zone" so how do you expect that to happen?
The local 'civics'? City Planning?
Hey. How about a change? Perhaps a grassroots effort?
Now we know what happens there.
This was my uncle... He was the heart of my family... When we found out we couldn't believe it. He's an awesome person. He liked to help people around him and had never gotten into any kind of trouble. The person or persons that did this to him are going to pay... Us the Vargas family will make sure justice gets served. We love you tio Ruben!!!! R.I.P.
Regardless of immigration or background status lets not become jaded to the fact A LIFE ENDED. regardless of the area, the environment A LIFE ENDED. they were someones family. How would you feel if it were your loved one. Get back to the Basics of LIFE, know why you are here....Is it to judge? Someone whom is dead and cannot defend themselves? Remember in the end you will be judged too ( if your christian) and you might come back as an ant ( if your buddhist)
The reason why Astoria Park has had even more people hanging out on Shore Blvd at night is because the city closed down a park on Randalls Island that was a big hangout for the bikers and etc. I propose that at a community council meeting, Astorians make an issue of changing the parking signs on Shore Blvd to read something like "Parking only from 9am to 7 pm. This would enable the 114 pct police officers to write parking tickets to anybody hanging out and causing a disturbance on Shore Blvd, and thus making the park a little safer.
Also to that same point, however- this seems like an isolated incident.
I still feel safe walking around at night. Walking around with a wallet stuffed full of cash at 2AM would be stupid in any neighborhood. (To be honest, I'd feel safer doing that in Astoria than in most suburbs).
I frequently walk my dog around that same area pretty late at night which is what is particularly disturbing for me about this incident. It has rattled me, but I will certainly not let this incident change how I feel about this great neighborhood.
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and of course, the entire point:
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Regardless of immigration or background status lets not become jaded to the fact A LIFE ENDED.
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Yes, we know and we see this all the time in a public forum like this.
The point is to examine its causes and try to have a public debate to change things so it doesnt happen again.
That is the greatest tribute you can pay this person.
The general feeling here is that in Astoria, especially when all that new development kicks in and people move into shoddy housing (which seems to be standard fare these days) that will go up in marginal areas (like along the train) this will get worse - far worse.
Many people think that Astoria is fairly isolated - not geographically - but intelletually from the rest of the city.
Most of the problems outlined in this blog at that park would not be tolerated in most areas of the city - but, having no yardstick to judge things, the people take blow after blow after blow because they dont have any choice or information that things can be different.
What gets me is that parts of Astoria, along with Flushing and Jamaica, went from the pinnacle of outer borough refinement to a third world slum. With Flushing and Jamaica, it was kind of forced on them. Astoria seemed to go along with what was happening and pretended it was what they had intended. Yes, Steinway Street is supposed to look like that...progress. Someone handed them a shit sandwich and they are pretending it's ice cream. Bizarre folks over there.
I still feel safe walking around at night. Walking around with a wallet stuffed full of cash at 2AM would be stupid in any neighborhood. (To be honest, I'd feel safer doing that in Astoria than in most suburbs).
I frequently walk my dog around that same area pretty late at night which is what is particularly disturbing for me about this incident. It has rattled me, but I will certainly not let this incident change how I feel about this great neighborhood.
Hahaha. Let me give you a piece of advice: if you keep walking out late at night, especially in a park, you will get jumped eventually, you stupid yuppie. Go back to astorians.com with this piece of advice and spread it to all the other hipsters.
why isn't obama and the D.O.Justice suing the sanctuary cities like n.y.c. they are opposing the federal law. undocumented democrats are illegally in this country and Queens county.
secure queens county borders now.
we need a petition to bloomberg quickly.
and then recall can begin.
4 queens murders and no alien status? why not?
All they have to do is close off Shore Blvd like they did some 30 years ago and it will be bliss. Its not like anybody lives on that street. Once they closed it off only foot traffic and bicycles were able to use it. The whole area improved by leaps and bounds. Once they reopened it everything went to shit.
I remember a time on shore blvd when you drove up with your top down breeze in your hair,farted in your girls face bought her an ice cream and no one bothered you.oh the good ol days..where have you gone?
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