A Queens neighborhood was rocked again by an attempted street takeover, months after a fiery takeover by roaring cars at the same spot.
A crew of motorcyclists were caught on video Friday night doing donuts and burnouts, causing thick clouds of white smoke, and lining up at the Mobil gas station on 69th St. and Eliot Ave in Middle Village. Police arrived at the scene and broke up the swarm of chaos-causing motorcycle riders, according to ABC7.
Councilmember Phil Wong, who represents the area, commended local cops for quashing the revved-up “nonsense.”
“My office was in touch with the 104th Precinct last night regarding a group of motorcycles causing street takeover nonsense near 69th Street and Eliot Avenue,” Wong posted on X. “Officers responded within minutes, saw the group leaving the area and put the information out citywide.”
The same intersection was the scene where a brazen trio of young gearheads jumped on the hood of a marked NYPD vehicle, cracking its windshield after police responded to a massive street takeover on April 18.
Wild video of that car takeover shared by Wong on social media showed multiple cars doing tire-screeching donuts near a ring of fire on the street, with a passenger in one car holding a large Palestinian flag out its window before cops arrived.
“They were spinning the cars, doing the donuts, the fire they put, I think they put alcohol in the pavement, and they put it on fire, they lit it on fire. It was scary because the gas station is here and across the street,” said one resident, Steve, 54, who has lived near the intersection for the past three years.
“They were waving the Palestinian flag, I don’t know why, what it has to do with this.”
Asil Assaidi, 22, was identified as the driver of a blue Infiniti recorded doing donuts and burning rubber at April’s Middle Village street mayhem. He was charged with reckless endangerment, a low level felony, and later released. A 2020 bail reform law does not allow judges to order bail for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.
The cars — including Assaidi’s blue Infiniti and a purple Infiniti — were caught on video participating in the meetup, which involved roughly 100 cars doing donuts, spin-outs, “drifting” and other wild stunts around a ring of fire set with accelerant at the intersection.
When cops arrived to break up the scene around 1:40 a.m. most of the participants scattered. But three people jumped on the hood of a police car, breaking its windshield, before piling into a black Nissan with no license plates and zooming north on 69th St. They are wanted for criminal mischief.
