NYPD Officer Dead, Two Critically Injured in FDR Crash
A young, off-duty NYPD officer who dreamed of one day becoming a detective was killed early Saturday in a horrifying one-car crash along FDR Drive.
Brooklyn-born cop Garman Chen was traveling “at a high rate of speed” north on the highway near East 23rd Street at about 2:30 a.m. when he lost control of his black 2016 Lexus, slamming into a barrier pole supporting a pedestrian footbridge, police and sources said.
The Midwood High School graduate, who was with the department just three years, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Injured were Chen’s two passengers: Kenneth Larken, 25, an off-duty FDNY firefighter assigned to Ladder Co. 10 in Manhattan who suffered body trauma, and Amanda Remy, 25, whose right foot was severed, police sources said.
Both were taken to Bellevue and were listed in stable condition, police said. Larken — who has been on the job for two months — and Remy are dating, an FDNY source said.
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