The vehicle, a stolen rental car, had been traveling west on the Manhattan Bridge before it struck the victims at the base of the bridge in Chinatown early Saturday morning.
The vehicle, a stolen rental car, had been traveling west on the Manhattan Bridge before it struck the victims at the base of the bridge in Chinatown early Saturday morning.
The vehicle, a stolen rental car, had been traveling west on the Manhattan Bridge before it struck the victims at the base of the bridge in Chinatown early Saturday morning.
A cyclist and a pedestrian were killed early Saturday morning in Manhattan by a stolen rental car that had jumped the curb and struck them on the sidewalk, the police said.
The vehicle, a blue Chevrolet Malibu, had been traveling west on the Manhattan Bridge before striking the victims just before 7:30 a.m. at the intersection of Canal Street and the Bowery at the base of the bridge in Chinatown, the authorities said. (Earlier reports from the police suggested the car was a Chevy Impala.)
The pedestrian, a 63-year-old woman, was sitting on a metal bench when she was struck by the car, according to the police. She and the cyclist, a man in his 30s, were pronounced dead at the scene, the authorities said.
The driver of the vehicle, a 23-year-old woman, and its lone passenger, a 22-year-old woman, were taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment and drug tests. Both were listed in stable condition, according to the police.
The passenger rented the car a month ago and had yet to return it, the authorities said.
The car also struck a Police Department van in Chinatown that had been parked and unoccupied. The driver and passenger left the scene, but they were found a block away and taken into custody, the police said. No charges had been filed against them as of Saturday afternoon.
By around 11:30 a.m., the area remained a scene of wreckage. The Chevy sat on the Bowery near the curb — its front end crushed, its windshield smashed and its roof partly caved in — as onlookers gathered behind police tape strung along Canal Street. Nearly a dozen police officers were present.
The Bowery was littered with debris, including a metal bench that had come unmoored from the sidewalk and was lying upside-down in the street. The police van sat nearby on the curb, its rear buckled in.
Larry Washington, a longtime maintenance worker for a jewelry exchange just in front of the van, said accidents near the Manhattan end of the bridge were common. Cars, he said, come off the bridge too fast to safely make the turn north onto the Bowery.
“This is not the first time this has happened,” Mr. Washington, 47, said.
Pedestrian deaths citywide have declined 19 percent during the first six months of 2025 compared with those in the same period last year, dropping from 63 deaths to 51, according to the city’s Department of Transportation.
During the same period this year, one cyclist on a traditional, nonelectric bike has been killed on the city’s streets — a record low, according to the department. (Three cyclists were killed in the first six months of 2024 and six during the same period in 2023; there were 11 such deaths in the first half of 2019.)
Traffic deaths in the city declined 32 percent during the first six months of 2025 compared with those in the same period last year, dropping to 87, according to the Transportation Department.
Sean Piccoli contributed reporting.