By DANIEL GESSLEIN

A 22-year-old man was in critical condition last night after an early morning shooting in an Orthodox Jewish section of Brooklyn.

The man, whose identity was not released, was shot several times, police said.

The incident in front of an apartment building at 526 Dahill Ave., near 41st Street, shocked residents of the Borough Park neighborhood, usually very quiet on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath.

People who live near the shooting scene said they were awakened to the sound of gunshots - and many were too scared to even look out their windows.

One resident, who would only give her name as Zobeyza, said she thought at first it was a car accident. "After that I couldn't sleep all morning because of it," she said.