Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'lincolntowncar'
July 8, 2007
An afternoon spree of shootings and carjackings by one man was ended yesterday by police, who fatally shot the suspect in a gun battle where 130+ shots were fired. A 23-year-old named Victor Gordon, with ten arrests already listed on his rap sheet, left his girlfriend's apartment on President St. after an argument. He walked over to St. Paul's Place just south of Prospect Park––perhaps stopping at a few bars along the way––and stole a......
Continue Reading "Drunken Carjacking Gunman Killed by Police"March 12, 2007
This is grim, for a second weekend in a row, three pedestrians were killed in separate incidents with vehicles:- A 71-year-old Queens woman was killed yesterday afternoon while walking around 84th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan; the driver stayed on the scene and was not charged. Ariela Koenigsburg was headed to her daughter's house to celebrate her 71st birthday. The cops suggested Koenigsburg may have been jaywalking, but her daughter says that's impossible.......
Continue Reading "Weekend's Toll: Vehicles Kill 3 Pedestrians, Injure 4"December 21, 2006
A terrible aftermath to Representative Joseph Crowley's holiday party. His staffer Eileen Gillepsie was driving with best friend and former staffer Peggy Bartichek afterwards, and Gillepsie drove down the wrong way on a Queens street. Her car was hit by a town car and "slammed" into a parked truck. From the NY Times:They were headed home about 12:50 a.m. yesterday, the police said, when Ms. Gillespie, heading south on 69th Street in Elmhurst, failed to......
Continue Reading "NY Rep's Staffer Kills Best Friend in DWI After Office Party "September 14, 2006
You know from the Daily News headline, Ford to Town Car: Drop dead, that the Daily News secretly wishes they could have made an article about Ford ending production of the Lincoln Town Car a cover story. The Lincoln Town Car is beloved by drivers (reliable!) passengers (legroom!), and even criminals (trunk room for bodies!), but Ford won't be building Town Cars after next year. Gothamist will put money down on car service companies buying......
Continue Reading "Town Car Soon to be Not on the Town"July 10, 2006
A horrible car accident unraveled in the Bronx yesterday afternoon: A 1994 Acura Legend somehow jumped the median of the Bronx River Parkway, killing five of its seven passengers. Four members of the Gardner family of the Bronx - Derrick, 40, and daughter Asia (some reports say Derrick and ASia were from Mississippi), 8; brothers Jamel, 14, and Keywann, 23 (Derrick was their uncle) - and relative Brandon Daye, 18, of Mississippi were killed. Two......
Continue Reading "Bronx Car Crash Kills 5 Relatives"February 20, 2006
A couple days after an Eastern European man appeared at the Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street subway station looking beaten up, police still don't really know that much about his case. Police say that the man was burned, bound and tortured, and probably held in the trunk of a Lincoln Town Car, but the man still hasn't spoken yet - he's been communicating with the cops by writing and drawing. The man is recovering at......
Continue Reading "Police Still Puzzled by Subway Mystery Man"
