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<\/p>\nA street takeover involving roughly 50 cars in Queens left residents shaken, a car torched and two neighbors injured as police cited competing emergencies and the precinct\u2019s \u201clarge geographical area\u201d for a delayed response.<\/p>\n
Police said dozens of sports car drivers converged on a quiet residential street in Malba over the weekend, racing, revving engines and doing donuts in the streets.<\/p>\n
Residents said the chaos escalated quickly.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
About 50 cars converged on a residential street in Malba, Queens, where a takeover led to a car being set on fire and two neighbors attacked
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Residents say the NYPD took nearly half an hour to respond as police cited competing emergencies and the precinct\u2019s large coverage area
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City Council Member Vicki Paladino says she has pushed for safety measures for years and is calling for tougher NYPD action<\/p>\n
Larry Rusch, who lives in Malba near the Whitestone Bridge, said he returned home Saturday night to find his \u201chouse was inundated with people on my driveway.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he drove a private security vehicle used in the neighborhood into the street near 141st Street and South Drive to try to stop the drivers, but someone threw something inside, setting the car on fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey lit up the car on fire. They were running rampant,\u201d Rusch said. \u201cMy neighbor got assaulted really bad. He was in the hospital overnight beat up. Cracked skull. Broken ribs. Fractured jaw. So, it was terrible. It was a riot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said a 50-year-old man and 50-year-old woman were approached by a group on their lawn during the takeover.<\/p>\n
Video shows a verbal dispute escalating before investigators say the woman was punched in the face and the man was knocked to the ground, punched and kicked. The man was taken to the hospital in stable condition and the woman refused medical treatment.<\/p>\n
Some neighbors ran for safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I run away because I was very scared that things would escalate in a very, very bad manner,\u201d said resident Gino Macar.<\/p>\n
City Council Member Vicki Paladino, who posted video of the incident to social media, said the neighborhood has endured street takeovers for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the last two years I have been begging DOT to come here and do what was necessary,\u201d she said. \u201cThey came, they kept telling me, \u2018Vicki, this doesn\u2019t warrant a speed bump.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Paladino said phone logs show one resident waited 28 minutes for officers to arrive.<\/p>\n
The NYPD said multiple emergencies stretched resources thin that night.<\/p>\n
In a statement, a spokesperson said officers were handling \u201cmultiple priority jobs, including an arrest for an individual who was driving while intoxicated, transporting someone to the hospital, an assault, and a vehicle collision with injuries,\u201d and said patrols will increase in the area \u201cto ensure this doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Police released images of several people they want to question in connection with the weekend chaos.<\/p>\n
Paladino said someone could have died and hopes the incident pushes the department to respond to future street takeovers with maximum force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A street takeover involving roughly 50 cars in Queens left residents shaken, a car torched and two neighbors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[387,25,576,9,24,12,26,63,308,122,124,123,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-51616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-erica-brosnan","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nia-clark","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-public-safety","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-queens-headlines","19":"tag-queens-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51616","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=51616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}