By Gus Saltonstall
What’s in your doorway?
A car crashed into an Upper West Side Capital One Bank on Wednesday night, according to video footage.
Around 11:20 p.m., someone lost control of a car and smashed into the glass door of a Capital One Bank at the northeast corner of West 72nd Street and Broadway.
Video posted to the Citizen App shows the car fully on the sidewalk, which you can see — HERE.
The car was gone Thursday morning but the glass of the bank door remained smashed and boarded up.
Minutes after the crash, West Side Rag watched two police officers chase down a man and arrest him outside of the Dakota Bar at the corner of West 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue. Multiple cop cars arrived at the scene, as many other police vehicles headed toward West 72nd Street and Broadway.
Police did not have available information on the incident as of Thursday morning.
We will update this story, when more is learned.
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Scary stuff – glad no one was injured.
We seem to have a lot more hit and run situations these days. Maybe the penalties aren’t sufficient?
there are more effective ways to advocate for getting a drive-thru teller installed.
Was it a New York driver or from another state? I couldn’t see the license plate.
Looked like Indiana?
but e-bikes are ruining our city
Thank you to the cops! Great work.
More evidence of the NYPD not caring about pedestrians.
How in the world do you deduce that from the information in the article? Your comment has more to do with your apparent hatred of the NYPD than your reading of the facts.
Simple, the NYPD doesn’t enforce the speed limit, this is obviously a case of someone losing control, likely while speeding.
This non-enforcement of traffic laws by the NYPD continually endangers pedestrians.
What?
The car had to cross a sidewalk.
72nd and Amsterdam, yes?
Quick, someone find a way to blame e-bikes!
Easy-peasy. Just try to cross almost any street, with the light, and they will come at you from nowhere. Blame will not be hard to find.
Indiana license plate?
Hey did they get the wood to stick to the door like that?
“What’s in your doorway?” Gus, that was a good one.
Glad no one was hurt.
Not the only incident like this yesterday. Seems like there should be significantly increased enforcement of drunk driving on holidays. Wouldn’t be hard to set up checkpoints on the major avenues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/nyregion/lower-east-side-manhattan-truck-pedestrians-accident.html
Wouldn’t be hard to set up checkpoints? That’s real fantasy world stuff.
Please keep us posted on any updates. I hope there are real consequences for the driver — there are a lot of people that have no business driving and endanger all of us.
And please do not belittle these types of incidents with jokes like the opening line. People could have easily been seriously injured — look what happened downtown.