A 13-year-old and a 66-year-old’s deaths are the latest amid an alarming rise of pedestrians stuck and killed this year in New York City.
Niyell McCrorey, 13, was hit and killed by a car at the intersection of Manhattan Avenue and Cathedral Parkway on October 24.
After a week in the pediatric ICU, she passed away from her injuries.
“My daughter Niyell was a brilliant kid. She didn’t trouble anyone. She was a sweetheart,” said her father, Darnell Sealy-McCrorey.
Friends and family members lit candles and left condolences at the scene on Monday night.
“I miss her voice, I miss her presence, her touch, her smell. everything about my granddaughter I miss,” Alithia Mackins-Wilson said.
On Sunday night in Harlem, another accident took someone’s life.
Officials say a driver of a Toyota RAV4 took off after hitting and killing a 66-year-old man who was walking along Fifth Avenue by 135th Street after 9 p.m.
The victim was rushed to nearby Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.