8 MAY 9, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Bandit robs two women at L train stops R’wood man
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
A Ridgewood man was
arrested weeks after
he allegedly raped his
ex-girlfriend in Richmond Hill,
authorities announced on May 6.
On May 1, Edwin Garcia, 38,
of Hancock Street was arrested
within the 104th Precinct‘s
confines and charged with rape,
assault, criminal contempt and
criminal sexual act.
According to the criminal
complaint, between 7 and 7:30
a.m. on April 19, Garcia allegedly
went to the home of the victim,
who has only been identified
as Garcia’s ex-girlfriend, and
began to bang on her door.
Law enforcement sources did
not disclose the approximate
location of the incident.
After getting into a verbal
dispute, the victim states that
Garcia allegedly pushed her
back into her Richmond Hill
home and told her to take her
pants off.
When the victim replied no,
Garcia then allegedly pushed
her onto the bed and pulled
off her pants and underwear
without her consent. Charges
say that Garcia then pushed
her legs down and said, in sum
and circumstance, “open your
f***ing legs” and penetrated
her without her consent while
holding her arms down.
The criminal complaint states
that Garcia then allegedly licked
the victim’s genitalia without
her consent, still holding her
arms down. He then raped her
a second time, holding her arms
down again after she refused to
give her consent.
After the attack, Garcia
allegedly said, in sum and
circumstance, “This is what
I’m gonna do every time I want
some.”
The victim was taken to a local
hospital for treatment.
According to the charges,
the victim had received text
messages from Garcia between
6 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Nov. 3,
2018, asking if he could get his
property.
Court records indicated that
Garcia was released May 3 on
$10,000 bond and must return
to court on May 17.
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
Police are looking for a thief
who is connected to a pair of
robberies on the L train near the
Ridgewood/Bushwick border.
According to authorities, at 10:40
a.m. on April 13, a 25-year-old
woman was at the turnstile at the
Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues L train
subway station when an unknown
man approached her and ask if she
could swipe him in. The woman
refused and entered the subway
system through the turnstiles.
As she walked down the stairs to
the platform, the suspect shoved her
down to the floor, and grabbed her
purse, which contained $250 in cash
and a debit card. The crook then fled
the station and ran into the streets.
Officers from the 104th Precinct
and the NYPD Transit Bureau
responded to the incident. The
woman was treated at Wyckoff
Heights Medical Center for a
fractured left foot.
Six days later, at 9 a.m. on April
19, the suspect struck again at the
Halsey Street station in the vicinity
of Halsey Street and Wyckoff
Avenue.
According to law enforcement
sources, the perpetrator pilfered
a 55-year-old woman’s purse on
Photos courtesy of the NYPD
board a Canarsie-bound L train as
it arrived at the station. The pursue
contained $15 in cash and four credit
cards.
Cops said he then departed the
train and fled the station on foot
northbound on Covert Street. The
victim suffered pain to her right arm
during the theft.
On May 1, the NYPD released
video of the bandit, who’s described
as a Hispanic man between the ages
of 20 to 30 years old. He was last seen
wearing a black and white bucket hat,
a black jacket, black pants and black
sneakers.
Anyone with information in
regard to this incident is asked to call
the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline
at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish,
888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can
also submit their tips by logging
onto the Crime Stoppers website, or
on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are
BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
The Kosciuszko Bridge, or
the K Bridge as Governor
Andrew Cuomo calls it, will
have its second cable-stayed span
open this September, bringing the
reconstruction project to a close well
ahead of schedule.
Cuomo conducted on Monday a
press tour of the work site up more
than 10 fl ights of stairs unveiling a
nearly completed roadway as well as
cabling to suspend the concrete and
steel above Newtown Creek.
“This replacement bridge was
done in a totally diff erent method
than the state had used before: it’s
what is referred to as design build
construction,” Cuomo said. “This
bridge is four years ahead of schedule
from what the original time estimate
was if the government had done the
job. So just the initial change, the
design build saved us four years.”
There will be fi ve Queens-bound
lanes and four Brooklyn-bound lanes
upon the second spans completion
and will include a pedestrian and
bike path.
Making the bridge accessible
to foot traffic and bikes was a
opportunity for the state to build
green space on each side allowing
access to the waterfront.
The project totaled $873 million for
the state with over $100,000 incentive
for everyday the contractors
push closer to completion ahead
of schedule.
Until the May 6 announcement,
the expected completion date had
been December.
In April 2017, Cuomo cut the
ribbon on the eastern span of the
bridge with fl are by arrive at the
ceremony driving a 1932 Packard
owned by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt, who also served as
governor of the New York.
“That bridge is now handling the
same volume of traffi c that the old
bridge was handling,” Cuomo said. “I
think it enhances the Brooklyn and
Queens skyline … When you think
about this bridge being the fi rst
bridge since the Verrazzano, 1964,
that means a entire generation has
grown up having not seen any new
dramatic, big projects.”
The original Kosciuszko Bridge
was built in 1929 and named aft er
a Revolutionary War hero from
Poland. The new spans between
Brooklyn and Queens will increase
capacity and decrease delays by 65
percent, according to Cuomo.
The old bridge, dismantled
over the course of 2017, was built
to endure about 10,000 vehicles,
but was actually seeing double
that amount of crossings per day,
Cuomo said.
Governor Cuomo stands on one
of the towers of the newest span
of the Kosciuszko Bridge during a
press tour on Monday.
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