🌱 Woman And Produce Market Hit By Car In Astoria + NYPD Find AirTag

Hello, everybody. I'm back with your new edition of the Queens Daily. Here are all the most important things to know about what's happening in the community today.

But first, today's weather:

Afternoon rain. High: 47 Low: 42.

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Here are the top three stories today in Queens:

1. On Monday afternoon, a car jumped a curb and hit a woman and a produce market in Astoria before fleeing the scene. Surveillance video from the United Brothers Fruit Market caught the accident along the sidewalk on 33rd Street as it approached 30th Avenue. According to witnesses, the driver of the car appeared to be fleeing from unmarked law enforcement vehicles behind it. The driver was later apprehended in Woodside, about a mile away, after crashing into a parked car. The victim is expected to recover. (ABC7NY)
2. A GPS tracking device was found under the hood of a marked New York Police Department (NYPD) vehicle in Queens. According to an email obtained by News 4, NYPD members were reminded to inspect their patrol vehicles before and after their shifts to ensure no GPS trackers were on them. The email came ahead of a separate report in which someone loosened the lug nuts of an NYPD van on the Upper West Side, which caused a wheel to fly off it on Monday night. (NBC New York)
3. On Monday, a Queens man was arraigned on child sex trafficking and rape charges. According to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, 38-year-old Troy Siddons allegedly abducted a 14-year-old girl he met at a party in January 2022 and forced her to have sex for money. The victim was rescued from a Brooklyn home where captors allegedly held her. Siddons faces charges of child sex trafficking, sex trafficking, compelling prostitution, promoting prostitution, and rape; if convicted, he faces up to 40 years in prison. (1010 WINS)

Today in Queens:

• LEGO Based Real World Robotics With Snapology At The After-School Collective (3:30 PM)
• Creatine Crashing Comedy Open Mic At Q.E.D. (5:30 PM)

From my notebook:

• The next time you visit Queens Center Mall, don’t forget to look up or down (depending on where you’re standing) and gaze into Pauline Shaw’s newly commissioned vinyl artwork in the mall’s Center Court. Learn more about this collaboration between the Queens Museum and Queens Center here. (Queens Museum via Facebook)
• Governors Ball Music Festival 2023 will be held at the Flushing Meadows Corona Park from Jun. 9-11. Learn more about the festival and its lineup here. (Queens, New York via Facebook)
• Are you looking for the best noodle soup in the city? This list has all the best spots, including multiple in Queens! (Eater NY)
• Are you in the market for a new home? These properties recently came on the market in the Queens area! (Queens Patch)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a staff writer for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners. She is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island, where she earned degrees in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies. In her free time, you can find her traveling, drinking tea, or practicing film photography.