Bus Crashes in Midtown; More Footage of E. 96th Shoot-out Released

A Coach USA bus jumped the curb in Midtown and slammed into a building on the afternoon of Dec. 11, officials from the FDNY and Department of Buildings said.

It is thus far unclear what caused the crash, The bus driver was hospitalized, and the incident is being deemed an accident.

The bus had just performed a drop-off in front of 101 Park Ave. when it slid over the curb, striking part of the building. It then crashed into already-damaged scaffolding put up around 370 Lexington Ave., destroying roughly 35 feet of it, the DOB told the press.

The facade of 101 Park Ave. reportedly sustained “nonstructural damage,” including a dislodged gate at the building’s loading tracks, while the facade itself of 370 Lexington Ave. remained untouched.

Footage on the Citizen app included seemingly shocked reactions from bystanders. “I’ve never seen that before. A bus in the wall,” one said.

Another bystander who gave his name as Randy told ABC7 that the crash briefly caused panic. “At first we thought at least a bomb went off or something because of the way people were running down the street.”

“Our top priority is the safety and well-being of our customers, team members, and those we share the roads with,” Coach USA said in a statement on Dec. 12. “We are currently investigating what occurred as to the incident near Grand Central.”

New Footage of Deadly East 96th Street Shoot-out Released by NYPD

The NYPD has released new footage of a Nov. 13 shoot-out on East 96th Street that left 20-year-old gunman Elijah Brown dead.

The CCTV footage provides a more detailed look at what led up to the incident, which involved Elijah Brown reportedly threatening various people in the area with a firearm, leading to a 911 call and a police pursuit.

Brown turned around and fired a shot at officers at around 7:07 p.m., police say, leading them to fire 20 rounds back at him. He was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

The footage demonstrates that Brown pulled a gun on a seemingly unarmed man in an elevator roughly 20 minutes before the shooting, which CBS News points out occurred roughly 10 blocks south. He then departed the elevator on the first floor, leaving the man unharmed.

Brown then entered a deli on East 107th Street, the footage shows, where he went behind the counter and pulled a gun on the clerk. He asked the clerk to call 911 on him, and talked to the operator himself.

“I’m crazy. I have a gun,” he says to the operator in the footage. “Someone was trying to kill me and I got away because I’m crazy.” He then told the operator he was going to the nearby Mount Sinai Hospital.

Footage confirms that Brown made it to the hospital’s emergency room, on Madison Avenue and 101st Street, where he stashed a gun in a flowerpot outside the entrance.

He then began talking to an off-duty security guard, who asked him to leave with him, and ran back inside when he noticed Brown retrieve the firearm from its stash spot. The off-duty security guard then called for backup.

The final piece of footage depicts the shooting, which proceeded after officers encountered Brown.