Friends and customers gathered Sunday outside a Yorkville Deli bearing flowers and candles in honor of a deli clerk who was killed late Saturday after he was struck by a yellow cab.

“He is the neighborhood, he touched so many people’s lives,” a teary-eyed resident said of Manikam Srymanean, also known as Mano, in front of the shuttered Super-Del Market deli where he worked.

A shrine of flowers had been erected Sunday in his memory, below a sign bearing the words “Mano will always be in our hearts.”

Others remembered the victim, who was fatally struck by a yellow cab at York Avenue and 78th Street, as a “very generous guy” who “always had a smile on his face.”

Srymanean, who lived down the block from the store, was in the crosswalk and had the green light when he was hit.

The unidentified cab driver remained on the scene, and will not be charged, cops said.

“People are always in a rush, driving, walking,” fumed Yorkville resident Dave Sylvestor, who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years. “No one pays attention to where they’re going.”

Additional reporting by Daniel Prendergast and Emily Saul