Crime & Safety

Taxi Crashes Into Upper East Side Restaurant, 1 Employee Injured

Police say it was a chain reaction crash and everyone is expected to survive.

(Courtesy of Tim Lee)

July 3, 2021

At least one person was hospitalized Friday after a taxi jumped the curb and crashed into a restaurant on the Upper East Side.

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Police say it was a chain reaction crash and everyone is expected to survive.

Cell phone videos show the yellow cab lodged into the front of Amura Japanese Cuisine on Second Avenue by 81st Street.

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