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THE victim in the deadly shooting in Hunters Point has been identified. According to The Daily News his name was Vickram Sewsankar and this past weekend would have been his 26th birthday. Other details are contained in the article, but not the identity of the shooter, only to say that police are looking for a hispanic male in his 30’s.
[Read more…] about Victim Identified & Police Sweep Parks At NightA 20-something year old man was shot and killed this evening around 7pm on Borden Avenue and 2nd Street, one block from the Oval on Center Boulevard.
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AS Summer 2020 winds down, one looks back at the many regularly scheduled events that did not occur this year: Warm-Ups at MoMA PS1; Live At The Gantries, Taste of LIC, Evening Movies At The Oval, etc.
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A reader tipped us off that according to the Citizen App another person jumped from the tower 4545 Center Boulevard last night. Around 9pm a passel of police cars zoomed to the site, followed quickly by a large area cordoned off with police tape – though the app mentioned this person landed on the 7th Floor rooftop of the building. If so, this is the second jumper this year in this building, and the fourth known fatal jumper along Center Boulevard this past decade.
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Long Island City got rocked by Tropical Storm Isaias yesterday, especially near the waterfront, but when all is said and done it’s still rolling. As one long time resident with a battered terrace described it “the wind was even worse than Hurricane Sandy.”1
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