It happened on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, where a 29-year-old mother told police that she left her grey Toyota vehicle running and double parked with her five-year-old daughter inside as she quickly ran inside a store.
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Officials say a man then got into the vehicle and fled the scene.
A good Samaritan found the child at the Jamaica YMCA and brought her to the nearest police precinct, where she was reunited with her mother.
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Police are still looking for the car and the suspect involved in the incident.
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