Blue State Blues: Man Sets Fires to Police Car, Garbage, Next to Sleeping Passenger, Across Boroughs, NYPD SAYS
16th January 2025
Police are searching for an unidentified man accused of setting multiple fires across the city last week, including inside two subway stations and a police car.
The NYPD said the man set a police car on fire shortly after 2 a.m. Friday before igniting a second fire that damaged a vehicle in front of 14 Murray St., near City Hall. The suspect then reportedly traveled to the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall subway station, where he set a paper cup on fire and tossed it into a garbage can around 2:55 a.m., police said. The spree concluded around 3:40 a.m. when the man set fire to a pile of garbage next to a sleeping passenger aboard a northbound J train at the Woodhaven Avenue station in Queens, according to officials.