Doorman struck by car in crosswalk dies

A doorman mowed down on the Upper West Side by a red-light running motorist with a checkered driving history has died.

Alfred Pocari, 64, died Wednesday, just five days after Jessenia Fajardo plowed her Acura into him and a woman in a crosswalk on West End Ave. and W. 98th St., police said.

It was the second time in two months Fajardo, 38, hit a pedestrian. She ran over a man’s foot in Tribeca on May 21 and kept driving, say court documents. She has two A 56-year-old homeless man died Thursday when he was electrocuted by the third rail in a Lower East Side train tunnel, officials said.

He is the second person in a week to die in subway tunnel by inadvertently touching the third rail, which has 625 volts running through it to power trains.

The victim, whose unlicensed-driving convictions, authorities said.

Pocari, a grandfather to triplet baby girls, was on his way to work when Fajardo’s car hit him, relatives said Thursday.

“My dad came from Albania for a better life for his family,” said his son, Samiar Pocari. “My dad was a dreamer. He had big dreams for all of us. His personal dream came true when his three granddaughters arrived.”

Pocari had served as an officer in the Albanian Army, his son said.

“He was a hardworking man who last known address was a Brooklyn shelter, was walking through a tunnel for the uptown F line near the Delancy St. station when he touched the third rail about 1:30 a.m., officials said.

An MTA track worker found him dead a short time later. His name was not immediately disclosed. worked hard for me and my sister. He was a virtuous man who stood up for his beliefs,” said Samiar Pocari. “He was the rock of our family.”

The woman who was hit with Pocari suffered “severe and life-threatening physical injuries,” according to a criminal complaint.

Fajardo, of Walden, a village in upstate Orange County, is charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care. She was released on her own recognizance after her arraignment Saturday.

“The D.A. is working on the case, and we’re expecting them to upgrade the charges,” Pocari’s son said. “The damage is done, and it’s irreparable. Whatever happens to her isn’t going to bring my father back.”

In the May 21 incident, Fajardo faces charges of leaving the scene of an accident after she ran over the foot of a 47-year-old man in a crosswalk at Desbrosses and Washington Sts.

Fajardo did not return a message seeking comment Thursday.