Man Killed in Hit-and-Run on Lexington Ave. & E. 61st St.
An unidentified 44 year-old man was shortly before 5 a.m. on Friday, March 20. A person of interest has been questioned, but no arrests have been made.
| 20 Mar 2026 | 05:04
A 44 year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run near the corner of Lexington Ave. & E. 61st St. on the morning of Friday, May 20, cops said. (
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A 44 year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run on the Upper East Side in the wee hours of Friday, Mar. 20, police confirmed to Our Town. A person of interest has reportedly been held for questioning, with few further details on his identity.
The victim was discovered in critical condition on the corner of E. 61st St. and Lexington Ave. at around 4:43 a.m., cops said. EMS rushed him to Weill Cornell Medical Center but could not be saved.
The case is now under the purview of the NYPD Patrol Highway Collision Squad. The victim’s identity is being withheld pending family notification.
Footage of police combing the scene for evidence, while shutting down the street for hours, was accessible on the social media app Citizen.
It is the second fatal accident in uptown Manhattan in nine hours. Less than four miles away from the fatal UES crash, on the evening of March 19, an out-of-control driver was charged with vehicular homicide after crashing his car into a tractor trailer truck on W. 125th St. and Frederick Douglass Blvd just outside the Apollo Theater after he struck and killed a food delivery worker and injured four others. Police said 49 year-old Kevin Crosby was arrested at the scene.