A 37-year-old worker was killed when an MTA bus traveling in midtown Manhattan struck a small boom lift on the sidewalk and flung the man who was in its bucket onto the pavement

Vladimir Cruz, 39, was in the bucket of a boom lift “protruding into the roadway” as he worked outside the store on Fifth Ave., cops said.

A worker was killed Sunday night when an MTA bus hit the mobile boom lift he was using to replace a billboard at the flagship Victoria’s Secret store on Fifth Avenue, police said.