A 55-year-old longtime New Yorker was grazed by a stray bullet while walking on Central Park West on Thursday evening — choking up as she recounted the “terrifying” ordeal to The Post.
The innocent bystander, who did not want to be identified, said she suddenly found herself in the line of fire around 8:40 p.m. as she went to catch a bus at the park and West 108th Street in Manhattan.
“Somebody got off the bus and shot at the man on the street,” the victim told The Post by phone Friday. “I had to quickly pivot from, ‘Oh, I’m not going to make that bus’ [to], ‘I need to go the other way.’
“I think as I turned around, that’s when I knew I got hit,” the woman said. “And those two people were still out there, so I just tried to hurry away, back to where my friends were in the restaurant to get help.”…