The hit-and-run driver who fled the scene of an accident that left a Queens man dead was arrested Tuesday, the NYPD said.

Kevin Dennard, 35, is accused of fatally striking the 65-year-old homeless man in the intersection of Rockaway and Brookville boulevards in Rosedale around 3:30 a.m. — then fleeing, leaving the man to die, cops said.

Dennard, who had been convicted of drunk driving in November 2006 and November 2013, was arrested hours later and charged with leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death, police said.

The victim lived in a nearby Holiday Inn that serves as a homeless shelter.

“It’s sad, it’s really sad,” said Jean Rosario, who also lives at the shelter. “That person that hit and ran is a coward. He should be ashamed of himself.”

“He was a human being,” Rosario said of the victim, “not an animal. It’s somebody that was alive, somebody that was just trying to do his best to live out here.”

Dennard was awaiting arraignment in Queens on Tuesday afternoon.