DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly
LONG ISLAND CITY — A man was critically injured after being shot in the chest outside a building at the Queensbridge Houses Monday, according to the NYPD — the second shooting this year at the development, which saw zero incidents of gun violence in 2016.
The 38-year-old victim was shot outside the NYCHA building at 41-10 Vernon Blvd., at the intersection of 10th Street and 41st Road, shortly before 5 p.m., police said. He was taken to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the chest.
The NYPD did not immediately have details on the circumstances that led to the shooting or a description of the suspect. There had been no arrests as of Tuesday morning, police said.
The incident marks the second shooting this year at the Queensbridge Houses, NYPD crime statistics show. A man was shot in the groin on March 18, the Queens Courier reported at the time.
During 2016, there were no shootings at all at the development — which is the largest public housing complex in the country — what officials said was the first full year there without a shooting in more than a decade.
At a press conference earlier this year, Mayor Bill de Blasio lauded the Queensbridge Houses as a successful example of the how the city’s anti-violence initiatives are working.
Overall crime at at the complex is still down so far in 2017, statistics show. For the year-to-date period ending May 7, major crimes at Queensbridge were down 27 percent compared to the same time in 2016, according to NYPD numbers.
