‘Wolfpack’ of teens storm Queens restaurant causing $20K in damages

A ‘wolfpack’ of teenage vandals ripped a Chinese restaurant in New York apart on Saturday night, leaving around $20,000 in damage, with staff saying they are increasingly unsafe as crime continues to plague the city. Shocking footage shows over a dozen masked youths on a rampage through Fish Village restaurant in Queens shortly after 8.15pm as diners were eating their dinner.

The mob, who took an elevator up to the third floor to get to the eatery, caused utter destruction as they flipped tables and chairs in the frenzied attack which was said to have lasted less than a minute. Staff at the 127th Street restaurant look visibly shaken in the video, and while no one was physically injured, there are concerns about the attackers returning. 

Restaurant worker Tong Yi Hu (pictured) said that he believes ‘it’s getting less and less safe’ in New York. ‘It was a bit frightening,’ he told The New York Post of the youth’s trashing of the restaurant. ‘We have no idea what the cause was, and it was pretty nerve-wracking. Tony Hu, the restaurant’s manager, said he is still clueless as to why the attack happened. ‘From the time they entered to the time they left, it only took a minute. They didn’t say a word. We have no idea what was happening,’ he told CBS news.

‘I was so worried they were going to harm my employees or customers. But quickly became clear they just wanted to create as much damage as possible,’ Hu said. He explained that he had been behind the register at the time of the attack ran to call 911, but by the time he got through to police, the teens had already fled. The manager said he is concerned about what the attack will mean for the future of the restaurant, as he fears it will have a financial impact and damage its reputation with customers. The property damage was around $20,000 and the restaurant also had to give the 30 or so customers present their food for free. Pictured: Outside of the Fish Village restaurant in Queens. 

The senseless destruction by the offenders, who are all unidentifiable in masks and hooded tops, also saw plates smashed and a large window damaged. Responding to the ordeal, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa called the rowdy bunch ‘a wolfpack’ and said his community-watch crew would step in and patrol the eatery. ‘This was a wolfpack, a bunch of teenage thugs rampaging through the restaurant,’ Sliwa told The Post on Tuesday. ‘Another Asian merchant gets treated like a speedbump. Nothing is going to happen to [the criminals]. They will be charged as juveniles and be back out on the street.’

Sliwa, who previously ran for Mayor, added that he believes ‘The city is out of control.’ He said his community-watch crew will now try and support the restaurant by patrolling around it. Community activist and president of Asian Wave Alliance Yiatin Chu shared the clip on Twitter, writing: ‘We’ve fallen so low that there’s no expectation of consequences for this horrific attack on private property.’ Mayor Eric Adams (pictured center) has promised to tackle crime in the city after rates were up across all categories last year, according to NYPD data.

Anti-Asian crime in particular soared during in 2021, spiking by 96 percent in New York, hitting a century high according to experts at California State University. Adams has repeatedly pointed toward the justice system’s current practice of ‘catch, release, repeat’ as a main driver of crime in New York City. Last summer, he blamed the city’s criminal justice system for turning the Big Apple into the ‘laughing stock of our entire country.’

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