Past and present tenants of 305 E. 11th St. and 310 E. 12th St., adjacent multifamily residential buildings between First Avenue and Second Avenue, have come together to help their longtime super who was severely injured after being struck by a speeding car while visiting his native Albania.
According to a GoFundMe campaign, Haxhi Haxhaj, a super here for 30-plus years, was on his annual trip home last month when he was hit while crossing the street near the family house in Kosovo.
Per the campaign:
He ... is currently in a medically induced coma, facing a long and difficult road to recovery. His wife, Sadete; children Gentiana and Elbasan (who grew up in our building); daughter-in-law and granddaughters are now with him.
Haxhi is no ordinary super. Available night and day, he keeps our building spotless and can be seen every morning sprucing up our 12th Street sidewalk and beloved tenants' garden.
A doting husband, father and, most recently, grandfather, nothing makes him happier than sharing a recent photo and story of his granddaughters.
Please help us support this hard-working and devoted man with his extensive medical needs and his family with travel and living expenses abroad.
According to organizers, he was taken by a medivac flight to a hospital in Istanbul, where he remains in a coma.
You can find the crowdfunding campaign at this
link.
