UPPER EAST SIDE, NY \u2014 An 88-year-old Upper East Side man has died weeks after being struck by an SUV while crossing the street, New York City Police Department officials said Friday.<\/p>\n
The fatal crash happened around 6:23 p.m. on Dec. 2 at the intersection of East 80th Street and First Avenue, police said. <\/p>\n
According to investigators, a 2023 Lexus GX was turning northbound onto First Avenue from East 80th Street when it struck the pedestrian, who was walking in the crosswalk. <\/p>\n
The man suffered a laceration to the back of his head and was taken by EMS to NewYork-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Dec. 16, the victim was pronounced dead, police said.<\/p>\n
The victim was identified as Paul Rozenfeld, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story and will be updated. For questions and tips, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER EAST SIDE, NY \u2014 An 88-year-old Upper East Side man has died weeks after being struck by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-76095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}