{"id":351922,"date":"2026-09-20T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351922\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:28:14","slug":"wild-nyc-street-takeover-erupts-five-months-after-rowdy-meet-up-at-same-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351922\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild NYC street takeover erupts five months after rowdy meet-up at same intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of rowdy bikers pulled off a wild Friday night street takeover at a busy Queens intersection \u2014 five months after a wild car meet-up caused chaos at the same location.<\/p>\n<p>At least a half-dozen hooligans invaded the corner around 69th Street and Eliot Avenue in Middle Village, revving their engines, burning rubber and raising clouds of smoke at a Mobil gas station as motorists and a city bus cruised by the disruptive scene, according to footage <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhilWongNYC\/status\/2101287682324201528\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted on X by city Councilman Phil Wong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40907117\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cops-break-wild-street-takeover-141870809.jpg\" alt=\"Motorcyclists gathered at a gas station, with smoke from burning tires filling the air.\" class=\"wp-image-40907117\"\/>Rogue bikers converge around 69th Street and Eliot Avenue in Queens on Friday night. X\/@PhilWongNYC<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40907112\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cops-break-wild-street-takeover-141870815.jpg\" alt=\"Police breaking up a street takeover, with a gas station in the background and smoke rising from a motorcycle's tires.\" class=\"wp-image-40907112\"\/>The street takeover disrupts the same intersection where a wilder car meet-up took place in April.  X\/@PhilWongNYC<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy office was in touch with the 104th Precinct last night regarding a group of motorcycles causing street takeover nonsense near 69th Street and Eliot Avenue,\u201d Wong wrote Saturday. \u201cOfficers responded within minutes, saw the group leaving and put the information out citywide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On April 18, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/18\/us-news\/shocking-video-shows-mob-wreak-fiery-havoc-on-nyc-intersection-as-lawmakers-call-for-crackdown-on-chaos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 100 vehicles clogged<\/a> the same intersection for a late-night takeover, with cars whipping around on the street and burning rubber, including one maniac waving a Palestinian flag who came within inches of slamming into bystanders. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/23\/us-news\/reckless-driver-busted-in-fiery-car-meet-up-that-wreaked-havoc-at-nyc-intersection-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD arrested 22-year-old Asil Assaidi<\/a> at the scene, hitting him with reckless endangerment, riot, criminal mischief and other charges, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Records show that Assaidi is due back in court on the case Oct. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Similar illegal car meet-ups have caused headaches across the city.<\/p>\n<p>In May, seven people were arrested at <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/10\/us-news\/7-busted-in-latest-wild-nyc-car-meet-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an early-morning car meet-up<\/a> in the Eastchester section of The Bronx after police responded to reports of drag racing and an unruly mob.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Justin Aguilera, 19, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/25\/us-news\/new-photos-show-suspects-in-wild-attack-at-fiery-queens-car-meet-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was charged with gang assault<\/a>, riot and trespassing at a Malba street corner in Queens after a mob set a car on fire and attacked passers-by, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said he was allegedly part of a cowardly mob that attacked a homeowner and his wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of rowdy bikers pulled off a wild Friday night street takeover at a busy Queens intersection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,8191,9,56,63,65,64,103,25042,122,58],"class_list":["post-351922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-motorcycles","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-quality-of-life","tag-queens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351922","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=351922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}