Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'crossislandparkway'
September 17, 2007
Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an unstable building at 37th Ave. and 31st St. in Queens, a stabbing on State St. and 3rd Ave. in Brooklyn, and an organ transport on the Cross Island Parkway in Queens. GrandOpening on the LES is following up its single-table storefront Ping Pong concept with another slice of Americana: the drive-in movie theater. $75 will secure all six passenger seats in a ragtop Ford Falcon. We recommend burning......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"August 15, 2007
Eight friends, two cars, and one fatality. Early yesterday morning, friends, piled into a Chevrolet Blazer and a Honda Civic, were crashed at "dead man's curve" on the Cross Island Parkway. A 19-year-old passenger was killed while the others were injured, two critically. The drivers of the two vehicles were charged: 18-year-old Bolivar Camacho, driving the Civic, and 20-year-old Milton Flores, in the Blazer, were charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and vehicular assault; Flores......
Continue Reading "Fatal Drunken Crash on Cross Island Parkway "June 22, 2004
In a stunning display of showing Canadian geese who is boss, the Port Authority is going to "round up" 495 geese at Rikers Island and "feed them to needy families." Yes, it'll be like Olde English Christmas time, when goose was served for dinner (though Gothamist thinks English Christmas geese are the nice, white ones). While animal activists are aghast, the Port Authority says that the geese are a menace to planes at LaGuardia. They......
Continue Reading "Geese Get Cooked"
