Police say the 77-year-old woman was struck at 22nd Street and Eighth Avenue just after 1 p.m.
She was walking in the crosswalk across Eighth Avenue when she was struck. Officials say she was hit so hard that she landed underneath a parked car.
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in cardiac arrest where she was later pronounced dead. She has been identified as Iris Crespo.
Police say the 82-year-old taxi driver stayed at the scene to talk to detectives. He said he never even saw her.
"I don't know, what can I tell you, I don't know anything, I don't know what happened, they told me that I hit a woman, I didn't see a woman, that's all," he said.
He said he had the light but witnesses disagreed.
The driver, Daniel Fusaro of Queens, has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident, fail to yield to a pedestrian, failure to obey a traffic signal and fail to exercise due care.
----------
* More Manhattan news
* Send us a news tip
* Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts
*Follow us on YouTube
*