Brooklyn, NY : Woman struck and killed by MTA bus while crossing Brooklyn street on Monday, December 14, 2015

A Brooklyn woman who was lugging groceries to feed her two young grandchildren was hit by a bus and killed Monday.

Eleonora Shulkin, 62, had finished her shift as a hotel worker in Manhattan and just left her son’s place when a B36 bus slammed into her as she crossed E. 17th St. in Sheepshead Bay just before 6 p.m., police and family said.

The bus was making a left turn from Avenue Z and struck her as she walked in the crosswalk, witnesses said.

Shulkin was taken to Coney Island Hospital in traumatic arrest, an FDNY spokesman said.

“They told us she was in the emergency room. We thought she was all right,” said the woman’s devastated son Igor Shulkin. “I can’t believe this. ... She died under my window.”

The son said his mom stopped by with three heavy bags of groceries, but she left when he wasn’t home to greet her and headed to the home she shared with her daughter.

Igor described his mother as a loving caretaker to both her adult children and to his sister’s young son and daughter.

“She was helping my sister because the kids have no father,” her distraught son said.

One man saw the gruesome scene from the window of the restaurant he manages.

“The bus hit her and she was down on the ground,” the witness said. “She was unconscious. ... The EMTs tried CPR for minutes, but she didn’t move.”

The bus driver, who remained on the scene, had not been charged early Tuesday night as police continued to investigate.

The crash took place about an hour before the NYPD announced a pedestrian-safety initiative focusing on areas around senior centers.

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Woman struck and killed by MTA bus while crossing Brooklyn street