{"id":339171,"date":"2026-09-06T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339171\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T03:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:26:08","slug":"major-crash-closes-both-sides-of-cross-island-expressway-6-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339171\/","title":{"rendered":"Major crash closes both sides of Cross Island Expressway; 6 hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/crossislandparkwaycrashcitizen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">QUEENS &#8211; A major crash has closed a portion of the Cross Island Parkway in Queens this Labor Day Weekend.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The FDNY said it first received reports of the crash around 10:15 p.m. on the Cross Island Parkway near 154th Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">First responders transported six people to the hospital, including two people with critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NYC Emergency Management reported around 9:45 p.m. that the southbound lanes of the parkway had been closed approaching the Whitestone Bridge.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">About 20 minutes later, officials announced the northbound lanes were also closed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials are recommending drivers &#8220;consider alternate routes.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It&#8217;s not clear when the road will reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story is from New York City Emergency Management and the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/queens\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article QUEENS &#8211; A major crash has closed a portion of the Cross Island Parkway in Queens this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,12,56,63,122,124,123,2023,618],"class_list":["post-339171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-traffic","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339171","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=339171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}