{"id":204987,"date":"2026-04-21T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:19:09","slug":"2-vehicles-seized-in-fiery-nyc-car-meetup-fiasco-as-pol-calls-on-nypd-for-more-patrols-to-end-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204987\/","title":{"rendered":"2 vehicles seized in fiery NYC car meetup fiasco as pol calls on NYPD for more patrols to end menace"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NYPD has seized two souped-up cars linked to a fiery weekend Queens car meet-up fiasco<\/a> \u2014 as a local pol called on the department to beef up patrols and end the public safety menace, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Police impounded two Infinitis \u2014 one blue and one purple \u2014 linked to the lawless Saturday gathering at the Eliot Avenue and 69th Street intersection along the Maspeth-Middle Village border, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n

City Council Member Phil Wong told reporters that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch informed him during a Tuesday meeting that the cars were recovered.<\/p>\n

The NYPD has seized two souped-up cars involved in the fiery weekend Queens car meet-up fiasco \u2014 as a local pol called on the department to beef up patrols and end the \u201cpublic safety issue.\u201d youtube\/@PhilWongNYC<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of this morning, there were two vehicles seized, but no arrests yet,\u201d Wong said. \u201cThey\u2019re working on that. It\u2019s active, and I appreciate the commissioner and the team at Queens North for mobilizing. But it just shows the fact that we don\u2019t have enough police officers, and I emphasized that to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news comes after the NYPD released photos and videos of a young-looking crew<\/a> allegedly involved in the street takeover, three of them donning keffiyehs.<\/p>\n

Police also released images of four cars involved in the senseless street showdown.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Wong said that cops had been patrolling a previous car meet-up in the Elmhurst and Corona area and there weren\u2019t enough police cruisers to get to the fiery scene in time.<\/p>\n

Police recovered two Infinitis \u2014- one blue and one purple. youtube\/@PhilWongNYC<\/p>\n

The news comes after the NYPD released photos and videos of a young-looking crew allegedly involved in the street takeover, three of them donning keffiyehs. youtube\/@PhilWongNYC<\/p>\n

\u201cSo clearly there\u2019s a problem on the number of patrol cars available that night, and clearly we don\u2019t have enough patrol cars, we don\u2019t have enough police officers,\u201d the pol said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I was told by the commissioner, there\u2019s a graduating class coming and there will be an influx of new recruits assigned to various precincts in New York City.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a public safety issue,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s not a matter of speed bumps or road blocks, you know?\u2026When you set a road on fire, when you close down a street that\u2019s criminal, and we got to hold them accountable, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bronx City Council Member Oswald Feliz said a similarly unruly car meet-up crew targeted his neighborhood months ago \u2014 with some ruffians doing back-flips on a police car.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is unacceptable, and it cannot be tolerated in our city under any circumstances,\u201d Feliz said. \u201cThis has been existing for decades, and it is something that clearly needs and deserves additional attention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD has seized two souped-up cars linked to a fiery weekend Queens car meet-up fiasco \u2014 as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8141,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,8192,122,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-204987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-police-investigations","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}