Sanitation truck driver fled after fatal cyclist crash in Borough Park.
A sanitation truck driver fled after the crash, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported; the official record says it killed a 35-year-old cyclist on Ninth Avenue at 8:23 a.m. on May 5, 2022, and the agency places it in Borough Park.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
The sanitation truck driver fled after the May 5, 2022, crash on Ninth Avenue at 8:23 a.m., which the official record says killed one cyclist. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that Boro Park 24 News identified the cyclist as architectural designer Eric Salitsky.
The driver left the scene.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that the sanitation truck driver fled after the crash. It said the cyclist was taken to Maimonides Hospital, where he died shortly afterward, and that the NYPD was investigating.
The official record lists one cyclist killed and no other injuries. It records southbound, straight-ahead travel for both involved vehicles.
The crash happened on Ninth Avenue.
The official crash record places the crash on Ninth Avenue. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency located it between 37th and 38th streets in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
Salitsky studied how sacred spaces connect people.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that Boro Park 24 News identified the cyclist as Eric Salitsky, while police had not released his name at the time. Salitsky worked as an architectural designer at ESKW/Architects in Manhattan and studied how design could bring people of different faiths together.
A 2019 American Institute of Architects of New York travel grant supported Salitsky's research into multifaith worship spaces across Europe and North America. His work became an exhibition at the Center for Architecture, and he documented religious architecture on his Instagram photo blog, @sacred_architecture.
Salitsky grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, studied religion and philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later pursued a master's degree in architecture at Pratt Institute. The agency reported that he was survived by his wife, Tamara Cohen.
Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz remembered Salitsky on Instagram, writing: "He believed that spaces had the power to affect our emotions, our spiritual lives, our ability to connect."