Pregnant woman, unborn child killed on Roosevelt Blvd.

She was eight months pregnant, a single mother who lived in a small, well-kept house with her parents and five-year-old son, where religious statues decorate the shaded yard and her son's red and blue bicycle, still with its training wheels on, sits on the porch.

Some days, she'd sit on her back steps blowing bubbles with her son or clapping along as he splashed in a plastic Kiddie pool. Petite and pretty, with big brown eyes and a wide smile, she was excited to be a mother again, her neighbors said.

Stunned family and neighbors struggled to grasp the loss of Giselle Moya, a 28-year-old Rhawnhurst woman struck and tragically killed Monday night by a northbound motorcyclist as she attempted to cross Roosevelt Boulevard near Lexington Avenue.

"I am sick, I cannot believe this happened," said her distraught father, Eduardo Moya, who spoke briefly to reporters while clutching photos of his daughter. He then excused himself, having to go to the police station for more information about her death

Moya, who was apparently walking to her home on the 2200 block of Faunce Street, just a few blocks away from the accident scene, died shortly at Albert Einstein Medical Center after being hit.

Doctors could not save her unborn child.

The 25-year-old motorcyclist suffered a broken leg and head injuries and was in stable condition, police said.

Police motor vehicle accident experts were still investigating Tuesday evening and no charges have been filed.

Moya's family said they did not know yet where Moya was coming from when she was hit.

"Details are vague right now," said a man who identified himself as Moya's uncle when reached by phone at the family home late Tuesday afternoon. "We are still trying to add everything up. We are in shock."

It was around 9:30 p.m. Monday when Moya tried to cross the 12 lanes of traffic near a marked pedestrian walkway on a block that leads to Faunce Street, police said. She was hit in the inner lanes. There is no stoplight at the crossing, though there is one a few hundred yards north at Ryan Avenue.

Despite the crosswalk, the stretch of roadway seems a particularly dangerous place for pedestrians to walk. The crosswalk is painted in the middle of a winding, downward curve, with traffic speeding north from Cottman Avenue.

John Flynn, 65, sitting on a stool Tuesday in the front window of the Eggs Nest Bar, which overlooks the crosswalk, said the stretch of boulevard has long been deadly. Growing up in the area, he remembers a tree just yards from the crash site that locals called "Dead Man's Tree" for all the motorists that struck it.

Flynn recalled a patron who left the bar and was killed crossing the walkway about ten years ago.

Area residents said two traffic cameras installed in recent years at Cottman Avenue and Rhawn have slowed speeding cars, but the bend near the crosswalk still presents its own danger.

Arvind Patel, 73, a clerk at the Hub Motel, also located near the crosswalk, said a woman died a few years back trying to cross at the same spot as Moya.

"You can hardly see if someone is speeding," he said. "They should have a light there."

On Faunce Street, neighbors remembered Moya as a loving parent who would play with her son and her tiny black Chihuahua, Bubba, who would sometimes slip into neighbors' yards.

"She would come over all smiling and apologizing," recalled Daniel Lombardo, who lived next door. "She was a real down to earth girl."

Lombardo had just returned home on Tuesday afternoon from making funeral preparations for his son, Daniel, who died of a drug overdose over the weekend, when he learned of Moya's death. He could not believe the double tragedy, he said. Close in age, his son and Moya were friends and would often share cigarettes over the backyard fence talking about the struggles in their lives, he said.

"It just kills you," he said. "She was a beautiful young woman with a beautiful young son who she cared for and now she's not going to be here to do that - her son is going to miss her."

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