LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — A car struck and killed a cyclist in Long Island City Thursday morning, police said.

Long Island City resident Robert Spencer, 53, was riding a bike along Borden Ave. in Hunter's Point, Queens, when a 2014 Chevy Cruze traveling south on 2nd St. hit him just before 8 a.m. Thursday.

Spencer was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital Queens, where he was pronounced dead, police said.