‘Gave his life for NY’

Train vic’s sis pleads at his wake

My brother wasn’t afraid to live in New York City, and this is how he died. So I believe in the city. I believe that there will be change because of him.

— Griselda Vile (left)

The sister of the Brooklyn man randomly gunned down on a Q train earlier this week decried the “senseless” crime wracking the city at his wake Friday.

“My brother wasn’t afraid to live in New York City, and this is how he died. So I believe in the city. I believe that there will be change because of him,” Daniel Enriquez’s (oval) sister Griselda Vile told reporters, five days after Andrew Abdullah allegedly shot Enriquez in broad daylight as he rode the train to Sunday brunch.

“I don’t want him to be victim, victim, victim, victim. It’s Daniel Enriquez,” Vile said through tears. “And, on that day Daniel Enriquez gave his life for every person in that [subway car] and for every New Yorker.”

Vile was among dozens of friends and family who paid respects to Enriquez at a funeral home in Ozone Park, Queens.

Enriquez, a researcher at Goldman Sachs who lived in Park Slope with his partner of 18 years, Adam Pollack, was the fourth subway homicide of 2022.

Overwhelming grief

Pollack, who on Monday told The Post that the slain man was taking the subway because he didn’t want to pay Uber’s prices anymore, was overwhelmed with grief on Friday and did not speak with reporters.

Vile said her brother’s mode of transportation was besides the point because taking the train to brunch is “a common thing that every does, every weekend, all year long.”

“We know that it was random. We know that it was senseless, and that’s the part that upset me because how many more senseless victims are there going to be?” she said.

Maurice Johnson, a bartender at The Abbey, where Enriquez liked to sip cider, said the 48-year-old made friends with every person who walked into the establishment.

“It was his bar more than it was any customers, any owners, any bartenders. He was just there all the time. He loved that place. He loved everyone that went there, he was always buying people drinks,” Johnson said. “He was always smiling, he was very loud. He was just a good guy, a good uncle, a good brother. He was just a great guy.”

Enriquez’s cousin, Rosa Vargas, said, “Danny was everything.

“Danny did not deserve to die the way he did,” she said. “He did not. He did not.”

Both Vargas and Vile said they hoped Enriquez’s death would spur politicians including Mayor Adams to act more swiftly when it comes to surging gun violence in the Big Apple.

“I pray that all the people who’ve out poured their support, their love, continue to fight to make change in the city and make change in this nation,” Vile said.