Woman Injured In Hit-And-Run In Washington Heights: Police

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A 24-year-old woman was injured in a hit-and-run in Washington Heights on Monday, according to police.

The incident took place just after 11 p.m. Monday near Saint Nicholas Avenue and West 165th Street, police said.

A driver in a 2007 Ford was on Saint Nicholas Avenue when they struck the 24-year-old woman walking in the opposite direction on the street, according to police. The car then took off in an unknown direction, police added.

The woman was taken to the Harlem Hospital Center.

There are no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing, according to police.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

Police did not confirm that the car was speeding, but Alexis Selena, an Upper Manhattan resident, posted to multiple Washington Heights community Facebook groups about the incident.

"The results of more f------ speeding in our neighborhood! A white car was speeding down St. Nicholas with a black one behind it. The black one hit the young woman, swerved and kept going," Selena wrote in a neighborhood Facebook group. "Everyday I hear the sound of these hyped up cars racing. What's being done about it and why aren't all the cameras catching these ppl??? How many ppl have to die or be injured before something is done?"

Drag racing in Washington Heights is not a new issue in the community.

Earlier in the summer, Patch found that drag racing complaints quadrupled in New York City from March 20 to June 14. More than 400 New Yorkers called 311 about drag racing cars or bikes in the period, up from 87 the year before.

Out of the total complaints, more than a third of them were in Manhattan. Most of those centered around uptown neighborhoods like Harlem, Inwood and Washington Heights.

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