A 28-year-old web designer is clinging to life after a hit-and-run accident in Greenpoint early Sunday morning. Police say Neil Chamberlain, a native of Lexington, Massachusetts who now resides in Williamsburg, was run over shortly before 4 a.m. on Calyer Street between McGuinness Boulevard and Newel Street. Police have no description of the vehicle that struck Chamberlain and fled the scene; Chamberlain was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.
"He's in serious condition," Chamberlain's father told the Daily News from the family's home in Massachusetts yesterday. The area around the high-speed McGuinness Boulevard where Chamberlain was hit is known as hazardous to pedestrians. In December, 33-year-old Solange Raulston (aka DJ Reverend Soul) was killed while riding her bike on Nassau Avenue near McGuinness. "You have to pay attention around here," one local tells the Post. "You see cars come barreling through McGuinness at really high speeds. They really fly like bats out of hell, trying to make the lights." And last week three cyclists and one pedestrian were hit (one fatally) by motor vehicles in a 24-hour period in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
