A person was killed after crashing his motorbike right into a wall in a car parking zone on Randall’s Island Thursday night, in accordance with police and sources.
The 40-year-old was driving a Harley-Davidson when he “didn’t navigate the roadway” and hit the wall under an underpass within the Manhattan park’s Icahn Lot D simply after 6:30 p.m.
EMS responded and pronounced the driving force lifeless on the scene, cops mentioned. His identify is being withheld pending household notification.
No different autos have been concerned and no different accidents have been reported.
Police mentioned the crash stays below investigation.
Randall’s Island made headlines earlier this week after NYPD officers raided an unlawful migrant encampment and open-air market peddling medicine.
Cops descended on the trash-strewn, violence-ridden encampment exterior the island’s city-funded 3,000-bed mega-shelter, the place some migrants had been residing unfold out amongst no less than 50 tents.
Greater than 80 uniformed personnel — NYPD, FDNY and parks division cops and employees — returned to the camp on Thursday the place they continued to filter out migrants who refused to depart.
Authorities additionally seized 11 mopeds, 11 empty tents, seven purchasing carts, and shut down 5 unlawful merchandising tables.
The migrant camp has additionally seen a current surge in violence.
A 26-year-old migrant was stabbed to loss of life simply exterior of town camp on Sunday morning, police mentioned.
Two weeks earlier, Venezuelan migrant mother Sandra Serrano, 44, was fatally shot within the face and again by a moped-riding gunman who additionally struck two others at a car parking zone on the island, authorities mentioned.
The motive force killed in Thursday night time’s crash was not a migrant, sources informed The Publish.
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