A 22-year-old Ivy League graduate from Morris Plains is dead after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Manhattan's West Side Highway.

Linda Quinn speaks to reporters
Linda Quinn speaks to reporters (WCBS TV)
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Andrew Quinn was hit by a southbound car at around 3 a.m. Saturday. He was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.

Police are seeking the driver.

Quinn was a graduate of Cornell University. He lived in Morris Plains and worked as a real estate analyst.

Quinn's mother, Linda Quinn, told the New York Post that her son was an avid skier who loved his job at Tishman Hotel and Realty. She says police told her several people stopped to help her son.

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