A Lexus-riding vandal smashed up nearly 11 police cruisers parked outside the NYPD’s newest station house in Queens, cops said on Tuesday.
The still-at-large vandal used an “unknown” object to deface five marked and six unmarked NYPD vehicles near the 116th Precinct headquarters in Rosedale around 11:20 p.m. on Monday — then drove off in a luxury getaway car, according to police.
He damaged the tires of seven vehicles and wrecked the windshields of four others – causing an airbag to deploy on one, which also had driver’s side mirror damage, cops said.
The unidentified delinquent, who wore dark clothing, fled in a silver Lexus and had not been caught by Tuesday afternoon, cops said.
The nearly $105 million 116th Precinct station house — which opened less than a year ago in December of 2024 — is the first entirely new NYPD command established in more than a decade, with the last one opening in 2013.
Officers assigned to the NYPD officers assigned to the 116th Precinct patrol the neighborhoods of Rosedale, Springfield Gardens, Brookville and Laurelton.
