The grieving family of a woman killed by a hit-and-run driver on the FDR Drive believes confusing construction signs led her into oncoming traffic instead of a pedestrian pathway. Mary Rowell, 31, was with friends and family in East River Park near Houston St. around 12:15 a.m. on Saturday when she decided to leave. “She was walking [and] they doing construction over there,” Denise Rowell, the victim’s cousin, told the Daily News. “She went to go where we came in at.” Navigating the construction zone in the dark, Mary Rowell followed a sign she thought would land her on a sidewalk toward Houston St. Instead, she wound up in the northbound lanes of the roadway, according to the cousin. A passing dark-colored sedan slammed into Rowell and kept on going, police said. At the same time, Denise Rowell was heading to her nearby apartment when she spotted fire trucks. “I’m like, what happened over here?” the woman recalled. “Then I see the ambulance and then the crowd started getting bigger. I said, ‘Mary went that way.’ I didn’t see her come back.” The worried cousin walked back toward the FDR Drive, where she spotted Mary Rowell. “They was pumping her chest,” Denise Rowell recalled. “And I was telling the police, that’s my cousin.” Medics rushed Mary Rowell to Bellevue Hospital, but she could not be saved. Meanwhile, the victim’s brother, after a week away, arrived back home to the East Harlem apartment he shared with her. Rebecca White for New York Daily NewsA poster with photos of Mary Rowell and sentiments has been added to candles memorial at the Manhattan building where the crash victim lived. (Rebecca White for New York Daily News) “She left, she cleaned up, and she had some ribs,” said Cleveland Rowell. “I could tell I just missed her because it was in the refrigerator, but it still was hot.” Though he had not yet been notified of his sister’s death, the man recalled an eerie feeling in the apartment that night. “I had a ringing in my ear that day,” said Cleveland Rowell. “It was so many signs. I definitely remember the ringing and I didn’t know what it was.” Hours after the horrific crash, he was awoken by his sister’s boyfriend banging on the apartment door. “I finally open the door and he said, ‘It’s bad. Your sister gone,’ ” Cleveland Rowell recounted, adding: “I’m doing horrible, I’m not going to lie.” On Sunday, friends and family gathered outside the Rowell siblings’ apartment building, where a memorial was set up in Mary Rowell’s honor. “She got that kind heart where she would give you anything she had if you asked for it,” her distraught brother said. “There are not too many people like that in the world.” Mary Rowell, originally from Brooklyn, was a mother to a 3-year-old daughter. “She asks for her mom,” Denise Rowell said of the little girl. “She wants her mom. She asks for her mom all day today.” Family members on Sunday remembered Mary Rowell a selfless, kindhearted woman who loved her family. “She was just that kindhearted person … she’s just still giving her last,” said Cleveland Rowell. “If she had it, she will make sure you got it.” The family believes had there been better barricades and signage at the construction area, the young mom would still be alive. “It’s dangerous,” said Denise Rowell. “It’s completely open over there.” Police are still searching for the hit-and-run driver. “Just turn yourself in,” said the victim’s sister Lorie Rowell. “You hit her, you left her out there like she was nothing.” “You left her in the street like she was an animal,” the heartbroken sister added.