Adam Uster was biking on May 1 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn when he was struck by someone driving a flatbed truck. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead, leaving behind a wife and two young daughters.

“Please give me the strength and give my girls the strength to continue biking, to continue enjoying life like Adam would have,” Frederique Uster, the wife of Adam Uster, said to a crowd of community friends and biking advocates Wednesday night.

During a vigial Wednesady night, advocates with Transportation Alternatives called for immediate action from city leaders to keep New Yorkers safe.

“We’re falling behind on the streets plan and we have record cyclists being killed, record numbers of people who are dying in the streets,” Danny Harris, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, said.

Uster, who was also a Transportation Alternatives member, is the 13th biker to be killed this year. The advocacy group says this makes it the deadliest year for bike riders under the city’s Vision Zero plan.

A memorial placard and ghost bike, which is the actual bike Uster was last riding on, now stands in his honor. Friends who knew him say he was a community man who loved people.

“He was a great dad, wonderful dad. He treated my kids and other kids in the classroom as one,“ Analecia Campbell, whose kids go to school with and play with Uster’s daughters, said.