A New Jersey man was convicted Monday of murder and other charges for driving drunk and killing four people at a Manhattan park where they were celebrating July Fourth last year.

Prosecutors argued at trial that 46-year-old Monmouth resident Daniel Hyden was intoxicated when he drove his Ford F-150 pickup truck over a sidewalk, through a chain-link fence and into a crowd of family and friends barbecuing at Corlears Hook Park on the Lower East Side around 9 p.m. He was going more than 50 mph at the time and didn’t hit the brakes until a half-second before the fatal crash, prosecutors said.

Those killed included Lucille Pinkney, 59, and Herman Pinkney, 38 — a mother and son who lived nearby at NYCHA’s Vladeck Houses — Ana Morel, 43, and Emily Ruiz, 30, another Vladeck Houses resident. P

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