Leah Elizabeth Sylvain

Leah Sylvan was riding her bike north on Evergreen in the early morning when she was fatally struck by the driver of a fuel truck who made a turn without yielding to her.

The driver was arrested and charged with misdemeanor careless driving, two moving violations for failure to yield, and another unspecified violation according to Streetsblog. Stories about the crash appeared also in the NYPost, DNAInfo and The Daily News.

Bushwick Patch reported According to Sylvain's Facebook profile, she attended Newington High
School and the University of Connecticut before studying fine arts at
the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Her Flickr account shows her to have been an incredible painter, sculptor and sketch artist.

Philip Jang, who said he used to attend church with Sylvain at Hillsong NYC,
wrote in an email to Patch: "Every time I saw her, she was joyfully and
gratefully serving at the hospitality team of our church. She connected
with people in line, making them feel comfortable and at home with her
contagious laughter."

Leahs friends and colleagues at Scenicorp made a ghost bike in her honor and installed it near where she was struck. 

According to her obituary: 

Leah was raised and educated in Newington, CT and was a graduate of
Newington High School. Leah was a young woman of great faith and with
her participation, was a founding member of the Mill Pond Church. She
pursued her love of the arts by enrolling in the School of Visual Arts
in New York and continued her education at UConn receiving her
bachelor's degree in puppetry and fine arts. In the summer of her
junior year, her love of scenic design was discovered and nourished
while interning on set design with the Connecticut Repertory Summer
Theater series. During her senior year, she had been chosen to work
with the New York Metropolitan Opera in their costume department and her
love for the city of New York flourished. Following her graduation,
she worked as a freelance artist in New York. Some of her greatest
achievements include working at Radio City Music Hall refurbishing
costumes for the Rockettes, and set design for the live television
performance of Peter Pan. She had additionally worked with Tom Carol
Studio and most recently Scenicorp, where she was currently employed as a
charge painter, creating beautiful scenic scapes for performing arts.
Some of her many accolades include the Fine Arts Talent Scholarship /
Drama Award for 2012-2013 at UConn, and at Newington High School; the
Scholastic Art & Writing Award, Women's Club of Connecticut Art
Contest: First Place Award in Mixed Media, the Sarah E. Lefoll
Scholarship, and the Newington High Excellence in Art Scholarship.
Besides her parents, left to cherish and honor her memory are her
grandmother Ellen A. Mita of Rocky Hill, her sister, Courtney E. Sylvain
and her fiancée Brian Verderosa of East Hartford, her aunt Susan Mita
and her partner Mila Jane Wilson of East Hampton, NY, her uncle Stephen
Mita and his wife Cheryl of Worcester, MA, cousins Max Mita, Zoe Mita,
and Mallory Ward, her beloved friend Shelly Figueroa and husband Alex,
and very many extended family members, friends and colleagues. She was
predeceased by her maternal grandfather William Mita and paternal
grandparents Rita & Fern Sylvain.