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Updated 01/11/2010 11:20 PM

Brooklyn Strongman Killed While Crossing Street

By: Anthony Pascale

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A 104-year-old Coney Island strongman died Monday after being hit by a van in Brooklyn.

Joseph Rollino, who neighbors call a local legend, was crossing Bay Ridge Parkway in Dyker Heights just before 7 a.m. when he was hit.

He died a few hours later at Lutheran Medical Center.

The driver of the minivan was not charged.

Rollino was known as "Kid Dundee" in his boxing days. He later became a strongman at Coney Island.

"He worked down at the piers, unloading ships, the cargo on the ships, and prior to that I guess he was doing the boxing and the circus stuff bending spikes with his hands. We're all shocked about what happened to him," said Rollino's neighbor, Sonny Soave.

Police say the driver was going the speed limit and had not been
drinking.

She was issued a summons for a defective horn.