Cops on Friday were grilling a suspected hit-and-run driver after she mowed down a man crossing a downtown Manhattan street earlier in the day.
The woman was driving a rented luxury sedan westbound on Hester Street and turned left onto the Bowery at 7 a.m., when she plowed into Tak Ng, 63, leaving him unconscious in the roadway, police said.
The unidentified driver jumped out of the 2014 red Infiniti Q50 and walked over to the severely injured victim, cops said.
But she then heartlessly dashed back to car and sped away, heading toward Brooklyn, cops said.
Ng was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition with fluid in his lungs, sources said.
Cops got a description of the car from a witness, and later spotted the Infiniti on St. Johns Place and Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights.
But the female suspect was nowhere to be found.
Instead, officers discovered a man behind the wheel and brought him into the 77th Precinct stationhouse for questioning.
The unidentified man told them where they could find the woman, and she was being questioned at the 5th Precinct in Chinatown late Friday, sources said.
Charges were pending.