{"id":355834,"date":"2026-09-24T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355834\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:46:12","slug":"motorcycle-rider-killed-in-crash-on-jackie-robinson-parkway-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355834\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle rider killed in crash on Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1021\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/queens-motorcycle-crash-09242026.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"police and firefighters at scene of deadly queens motorcycle crash on jackie robinson parkway\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Motorcycle rider killed in crash on Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating a deadly motorcycle crash on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens that claimed a man\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot via Citizen<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating a deadly motorcycle crash on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/queens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Queens<\/a> that claimed a man\u2019s life.\n<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the incident happened on a curvy stretch of the parkway between Exits 3 (Cypress Hills Street) and 4 (Forest Park Drive\/Myrtle Avenue) in Glendale at about 11:04 p.m. on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a preliminary investigation, police determined that the victim, a 44-year-old man, was riding his 2023 Harley-Davidson motorcycle when he failed to navigate the roadway, which has a number of twists in a portion of the parkway sandwiched on either side by Cypress Hills Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137871354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-24-at-11.16.52-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Law enforcement sources said the incident happened on a curvy stretch of the parkway between Exits 3 (Cypress Hills Street) and 4 (Forest Park Drive\/Myrtle Avenue) in Glendale at about 11:04 p.m. on Sept. 23.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"807\" title=\"Motorcycle rider killed in crash on Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens 2\"  \/>Law enforcement sources said the incident happened on a curvy stretch of the Jackie Robinson Parkway between Exits 3 (Cypress Hills Street) and 4 (Forest Park Drive\/Myrtle Avenue) in Glendale at about 11:04 p.m. on Sept. 23.Photo via Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Upon losing control of his motorcycle, cops said, the man was thrown from the vehicle and struck the concrete median.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd104pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">104th Precinct<\/a>, the Fire Department, and the NYPD Highway Patrol rushed to the scene along with EMS units. Paramedics rushed the man to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police have not yet released the victim\u2019s identity, pending family notification.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Highway Patrol\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad is conducting a further inquiry into the wreck.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a deadly motorcycle crash on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens that claimed a man\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[37962,33228,72563,132597,132598,8939,15799,2606,37963,132599,644,9,24,63,103,127453,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-355834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-104th-precinct","tag-brookdale-university-hospital","tag-collision-investigation-squad","tag-cypress-hills-cemetery","tag-cypress-hills-street","tag-fatal-crash","tag-forest-park","tag-glendale","tag-jackie-robinson-parkway","tag-motorcycle-accident","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-nypd-highway-patrol","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355834","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=355834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}