Friday, February 2, 2018

3rd Street collateral damage



Several readers mentioned a small fire that started late Wednesday night on Third Street at Avenue B... one reader said some kids (youth!) were lighting a box of saturn missiles (celebrating the last day of January?)... that ignited the garbage bags on the curb... and this Nissan Altima was the collateral damage. The FDNY quickly put out the flames. The car, now without license plates, remains on Third Street...



H/T Salim for the photos!
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2018 at 2:39 PM

    Terrible but look on the bright side, at least the car didn't explode.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2018 at 4:05 PM

    Continuing on the bright side, we get to re-live old school New York, when the streets were littered with abandoned cars.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2018 at 5:04 PM

    Those kids need to pay for the property damage.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2018 at 5:31 PM

    There goes a claim on insurance and lots and lots of inconvenience.

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  5. PJFebruary 2, 2018 at 5:49 PM

    Ah. I remember back in the late 70s early 80s fireworks were already illegal in NYC (can't be trusted, dontcha know!).

    But there was always someone who had a creepy uncle or knew some other such sketchy character who would sell some bottle rockets, M80s and sundries from the trunk of their prematurely rusty Malaise-Era bloat-mobile or basement apartment. Only requirement was a few bucks, a brown paper bag and some discretion.

    That was Queens though. And the local cop/fireman population certainly had no scruples about setting off confiscated "contraband" when the occasion suited.

    Chinatown seemed to evade scrutiny until the Guilliani years before which it had benefited from... "benign neglect"...

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  6. DrGeckoFebruary 3, 2018 at 2:01 AM

    @PJ - The firecrackers in Chinatown were to ward off evil spirits. Giuliani cracked down and now the neighborhood is overrun with them.

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    1. PJFebruary 3, 2018 at 10:34 AM

      Well put !

      Yes, I know the Chinatown fireworks have a religious significance and I remember the (justifiable) uproar when Rudy snuffed that tradition out. Which I'm surprised even he was able to do...

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2018 at 1:56 PM

    I lived on Forsyth St in the late 1980s. Bottle-rocket firefights between groups of Puerto Rican and Chinese teenagers positioned a block away from each other used to be the thing on July 4th. Ammo was available from street sellers up and down Canal St. Police were hands off for the most part until Giuliani cracked down.

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  8. JQ LLCFebruary 4, 2018 at 3:05 PM

    Return of "Mean Streets"?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEe7zv4y17o

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2018 at 12:28 PM

    Hey, this is real life. S---t happens.

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