Mayya Gil had been walking across Cropsey Avenue in front of her apartment in Bensonhurst near 24th Avenue around 12:40 p.m.

A 95-year-old woman, Mayya Gil, who survived significant historical events, died after being struck by a truck in Brooklyn.

Getty A 95-year-old woman — who had survived the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl disaster and the ... according to a 2020 profile from The New York Times. There, she met her husband ...