The NYPD has seized two souped-up cars linked to a fiery weekend Queens car meet-up fiasco — as a local pol called on the department to beef up patrols and end the public safety menace, sources said Tuesday.
Police impounded two Infinitis — one blue and one purple — linked to the lawless Saturday gathering at the Eliot Avenue and 69th Street intersection along the Maspeth-Middle Village border, law enforcement sources said.
City Council Member Phil Wong told reporters that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch informed him during a Tuesday meeting that the cars were recovered.
“As of this morning, there were two vehicles seized, but no arrests yet,” Wong said. “They’re working on that. It’s active, and I appreciate the commissioner and the team at Queens North for mobilizing. But it just shows the fact that we don’t have enough police officers, and I emphasized that to her.”
The news comes after the NYPD released photos and videos of a young-looking crew allegedly involved in the street takeover, three of them donning keffiyehs.
Police also released images of four cars involved in the senseless street showdown.
Meanwhile, Wong said that cops had been patrolling a previous car meet-up in the Elmhurst and Corona area and there weren’t enough police cruisers to get to the fiery scene in time.
“So clearly there’s a problem on the number of patrol cars available that night, and clearly we don’t have enough patrol cars, we don’t have enough police officers,” the pol said.
“But I was told by the commissioner, there’s a graduating class coming and there will be an influx of new recruits assigned to various precincts in New York City.
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“This is a public safety issue,” he added. “It’s not a matter of speed bumps or road blocks, you know?…When you set a road on fire, when you close down a street that’s criminal, and we got to hold them accountable, right?”
Bronx City Council Member Oswald Feliz said a similarly unruly car meet-up crew targeted his neighborhood months ago — with some ruffians doing back-flips on a police car.
“That is unacceptable, and it cannot be tolerated in our city under any circumstances,” Feliz said. “This has been existing for decades, and it is something that clearly needs and deserves additional attention.”
