Motorcycle crash kills cop

An off-duty NYPD highway cop died when he crashed his motorcycle on the Belt Parkway in Queens on his way to work early Thursday.

Marc St. Arromand, 42, wiped out on his 2011 Yamaha motorcycle near Merrick Blvd. in Laurelton about 5:30 a.m., officials said.

He has five children, ranging in age from newborn to 11 years old, according to a GoFundMe page raising money for his grieving family.

“He always wanted to be a police officer,” Ernest St. Arromand, his cousin, told The News.

“It is something that runs in the family. His father was in the military in Haiti, as was his grandfather,” he said. “He was a good, good man. He loved the job.”

A native of Haiti, St. Arromand (photo) always volunteered to help out at Brooklyn’s annual West Indian Day parade.

“He was a gentle giant,” said a retired NYPD detective. “We’re going to miss him.”

The cop began his career in 2003 at the 61st Precinct before moving to the department’s highway patrol in Brooklyn, police sources said.

“This is a very painful day for all of us,” Mayor de Blasio said Thursday. “A brave police officer who serves us and who we have lost so early in his life and it is a very, very painful moment for all of us.

“Today, when you see members of the NYPD please extend your condolences to them,” the mayor said. “It’s going to be a tough day for all of them.”

Police sources expect dozens of colleagues to travel to St. Arromand’s home on Long Island to pay their respects.