City paving worker dies in road hit

A city worker repaving a street near Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side was run over and killed by a colleague early Tuesday, officials said.

Transportation Department worker Eduardo Calle Abril, 44, was in the middle of repaving a stretch of E. 88th St. near York Ave. when a Mack dump truck involved in the project backed up into him, horrified witnesses told police.

Calle Abril (photo), of Flushing, Queens, was knocked to the ground as the truck rolled over him. Medics rushed him to New YorkPresbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, but he could not be saved.

The Ecuadoran native was a fouryear employee of the Transportation Department’s Roadway Repair and Maintenance division, officials said.

The man’s devastated family members struggled to make sense of the loss.

“My dear child, you left and I will not see you again but you will always be in my heart and my mind,” Mirna Abril, Calle’s mother, wrote on Facebook in Spanish.

“You called me every day, and now you will not. I don’t know what I’ll do without you. I am going to miss your jokes and your wisecracks. I want this to be a nightmare, to wake up and never leave your side. I love you.”

The 35-year-old worker operating the dump truck, who has not been identified, was not immediately charged as cops continued to investigate Tuesday.

“This is a painful moment for the entire DOT family. We mourn the loss of our colleague and our thoughts and prayers are with Eduardo’s family, friends and coworkers,” Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said in a statement.