Man Hit By A Truck And Two Cars Killed In Park Slope: Cops

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A 57-year-old man who was hit by a truck and two cars in Brooklyn early Friday morning is at least the sixth pedestrian to die on New York City streets this week.

Andres Stylianou, of Staten Island, was trying to cross Third Avenue in the middle of a block near Seventh Street when a truck all driving north on the corridor hit him around 6 a.m., police said. Stylianou was hit again by two cars driving south before officers found him lying in the road, police said.

Emergency responders rushed him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The crash became the latest in a harrowing week of at least seven pedestrian deaths across the city, four of which happened in the last 24 hours.

Also on Friday, an unidentified man was hit by a private garbage truck while jaywalking on West 49th Street and 10th Avenue around 4:45 a.m. Friday, police said.

On Thursday, a 26-year-old was hit by a box truck backing up in Manhattan and 85-year-old Sunset Park resident Brendan Gill was killed when a box truck slammed into him as he crossed Third Avenue at 39th Street just after 3:30 p.m., police said.

Earlier in the week, 67-year-old Zhisheng Lin died Thursday after he was hit Wednesday in Queens, a 75-year-old Brooklyn woman was hit and killed Wednesday in Sunset Park and 80-year-old Misa Gorlitskaya died in the hospital, three days after she was knocked down by an SUV in Sheepshead Bay.

The Brooklyn deaths join two other pedestrians who died just in the last few weeks, bringing the count up to six since late November for the borough.

40-year-old Tracy Lewis-Belgrave was hit and killed early December by an SUV as she was crossing the Pearl and Willoughby street intersection, a section of Downtown Brooklyn that had been turned into a "Shared Street" meant to improve safety just months before.

Another woman was killed in late November when she was hit when she was walking near the Pennsylvania and Atlantic avenues intersection in East New York in a hit-and-run.