Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Rash of car fires in Woodside


From CBS 2:

Some Queens residents woke on Monday, to find their vehicles on fire.

As CBS2’s Alice Gainer reported, just after midnight a van was set on fire at 56th Street and Queens Boulevard in Woodside.

Police and firefighters responded and put out the flames.

Nearly 3 hours later they were back after a car parked nearby also caught fire.

It’s unclear how the fires were started and whether or not an accelerent was used.

7 comments:

JQ LLC said...

That's disturbing. It's a damn shame that the only way to prevent such criminality is to install more cameras, which has been proven time and time again that it doesn't deter such behavior. And this happened in suddenly fabricated speculative upscale
Woodside. Something of this nature usually occurs in the dead of night in the dirty southeast of Queens (take your area pick)

One quibble with the report, why the fuck are the police suvs parked next to each other on the bike lane like that? If anything they can park on that sandy patch that the city installed for no goddamned reason. So much for Vision Zero consideration by the proper authorities. Nobody hates the queens blvd. bike lane than I do and I am a regular bike commuter, but really, that is a blatant display of arrogance, entitlement and contempt, and a road hazard.

Anonymous said...

Waz up?
Anger for Trump's election victory ?

Anonymous said...

House fires in Forest Hills, store fires in Kew Gardens Hills, car fires in Woodside, the Queens arsonist is branching out.

Anonymous said...

I hate how the article implies the city should put cameras everywhere, so not even the dead can have privacy.

Anonymous said...

Local home grown individual acts of terror!

Anonymous said...

why isn't IVB looking into this this this is his territory i guess he can't be bothered

JQ LLC said...

"House fires in Forest Hills, store fires in Kew Gardens Hills, car fires in Woodside, the Queens arsonist is branching out."

Queens is burning. Welcome to the new bad days.