"I thought it must be another terrorist attack," said Samantha Bernardino, 21, who was walking near the gas station when the flaming engine dropped near the pumps, blowing out the windows of the station.
At first the police managed to stop any of the anti-fascists from getting into the station, and the two opposing groups had to make do with swearing at each other through the windows of the station's Wetherspoons.
In this part of Queens, the two spheres, of wheeled suitcases and recorded voices above, and dingy bars and dark sidewalks below, usually do not intersect — though they did the morning Mr. Bell died, when a stray bullet pierced the window of the AirTrain station.
There was a good chance that Mr. Castillo knew the law was after him: his picture was posted on a community bulletin board at the post office and on the plate-glass windows of the police station, and his name was published last Friday in a local newspaper, The American.
Maxie Dacosta Jr., 27, a murder suspect, leaped from a third-floor window of the 103rd Precinct station house in Jamaica, Queens, last Thursday.
The mob demolished a brick wall six feet high, and, using the bricks as missiles, smashed the windows of the police station.
The European Space Agency said the fused-silica and borosilicate-glass windows of the space station are sometimes hit by tiny objects, but they pose no threat to the astronauts as there is "extensive shielding around all vital crew and technical areas".
Detective Cooper had faced the least serious charge, reckless endangerment, in part for shooting through the window of an AirTrain station the night Mr. Bell died.
She went to the window and asked one of the station's trademark surly tellers what kind of stamps they had.
Then, on the night of his fifteenth birthday, he gets out the back window of a station wagon on a dark night after making out with her.
