An elderly woman who was fatally struck in early April by an unlicensed SUV driver as she crossed a Brooklyn street was a Hasidic Jewish matriarch who fled Russia after World War II on an escape train to Poland, family and police said Wednesday. On April 8 around 8:25pm, Taibel Brod — whom family members said was 99 years old — was crossing with a walk signal at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and Montgomery Street in Crown Heights, and had made it midway across Montgomery St. Click here to read more on www.nydailynews.com.
