By Madina Toure
BAYSIDE — A Ridgewood man parked near the Capital One Bank in Bayside after he started smelling smoke from his car Feb. 12.
Irving Rodrigues, 51, pulled into the parking space in between Tannenbaum Associates, a law office, and Capital One Bank at 214-01 Bell Blvd. in Bayside.
Rodrigues made a left turn onto Bell Boulevard from Northern Boulveard when he smelled “something funny” from his car, which shut off by itself.
“I shut off the car. The car started smoking and then all of a sudden it was like white smoke turned into brown smoke, then I smelled something burning,” he said.
Tannenbaum Associates called the FDNY, which checked the car out.
