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Hunt For Hit-And-Run Driver Who Left Man Lying In Queens Street To Die

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The hunt is on for a hit-and-run driver who left a man lying in the street to die Sunday in Queens. The 29-year-old victim was mowed down moments after leaving dinner with friends. It happened around 6:30 p.m. near the intersection of Continental Avenue and Exeter Street in the Forest Hills neighborhood. Melissa Acevedo said her friend, Niklas Ahern, of Tribeca, had just finished having dinner with another friend when a silver, four-door car suddenly crashed into Ahern. Acevedo said the impact sent his body flying, knocking his shoe off his foot. “I was holding him. I got his blood all over me,” she said. One man said he could hear the crash from inside his nearby home. “I heard like a bang bang, and then I opened the door, and I see somebody was laying down on the floor right behind that car here,” he said. “There was a girl screaming. She was distressed, completely. It was horrible.” Police said the driver took off heading north in the residential community, where neighbors say it’s common for people to speed. “People do drive very fast here, very fast,” the man said. First responders tried to revive Ahern on the scene, but he was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

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November 12, 2018 0 comment

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Exclusive: UES Residential Building Without Heat For A Week

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — As temperatures drop, residents in a building on the Upper East Side say they have no heat or hot water — and that it has been that way for a week. The biggest problem is no one seems to be doing anything about it, CBS2’s Lisa Rozner reported exclusively on Sunday. Geraldine Czenszak is 87 years old and doing everything she can to stay warm. “It’s the worst ever. I’ve never been so frozen,” she said. “I had two to three layers of blankets on me.” Tenants at an Upper East Side residential building are annoyed because they haven’t had heat for a week. (Photo: CBS2) Czenszak lives in one of more than two dozen apartments at 260 E. 72nd St., near Second Avenue. The boiler is broken, so for the last month residents say a mobile unit on the street outside was supplying warmth to the building. But on Wednesday they woke up to frozen air and it’s unclear why. Margery Koen, who is using a heating pad to sleep, said no one has been back since Friday to fix it. “I thought they were going to come back over the weekend. That’s what’s getting me so upset, that nobody’s working on it,” Koen said. “They are a bit elderly and this is not proper. People are beginning to get sick, including myself. I have a cold,” tenant Carola Cusa said. MORE : De Blasio’s Tour Of NYCHA Heating Complex Doesn’t Go Well On Nov. 1, a new company, Plaza Management out of Brooklyn, took over the property. A porter handed out space heaters on Sunday, but no one is telling the residents when they’ll get their heat back. “Every day was like, OK, you call 311 or you call a friend and they say, ‘What happened? Do we have heat?’ And they say no,” one person said. The city’s Department of Housing and Preservation shows at least three open violations at the property, which could lead to a fine. But residents said they want action. “City, can you get me to a hotel or someplace that has some heat?” a woman named “Geraldine” said. No one at the Department of Housing and Preservation or at the Department of Buildings returned CBS2’s multiple calls and emails. The property company also did not get back to us.

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Exclusive: UES Residential Building Without Heat For A Week

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