Frightening video shows a personification moving connected apical of a moving train astatine nan aforesaid Queens position where a teenage woman died and her young friend was critically injured while subway surfing complete nan weekend.
A heart-pounding clip taken Thursday by a concerned New Yorker adjacent nan 111th Street position successful Corona shows personification precariously jogging on nan apical of an elevated subway car.
A 2nd clip from April shows astatine slightest 5 youngsters atop different subway car successful nan aforesaid corridor on Roosevelt Avenue.
“They do it each day,” Cara Thomas, who changeable nan earlier video and whose pavilion overlooks nan elevated tracks, told The Post connected Monday.
“I spot it almost each day. And they do it connected nan apical of nan train, nan express. They’re mostly successful groups of 4 aliases six,” Thomas said.
“It’s truthful crazy. It scares nan hellhole retired of me.”
On Sunday, two teen girls plummeted from a southbound 7 train astatine astir 11 p.m. astatine nan 111th Street station, leaving 1 pinch life-threatening injuries and sidesplitting nan 2nd — nan sixth subway surfing fatality this year.
A 13-year-old Brooklyn woman was pronounced dormant astatine nan segment while her 14-year-old companion remained successful captious information connected Monday, law-enforcement sources said.
Blood splattered connected nan sidewalk and quiet sneakers marked nan chilling segment successful nan aftermath.
News of nan latest senseless decease brought a look of anguish to nan look of Adolfo Sanabria, whose 13-year-old son, Adolfo Sorzano, was killed past week successful different Queens subway stunt.
“Please don’t get carried distant by a societal media challenge. You person autonomy. You tin opportunity not to your friends,” Sanabria implored metropolis teens taking portion successful nan TikTok and Instagram-inspired trend.
“Please deliberation astir nan symptom it will origin your parents. When you’re successful that moment, that infinitesimal of adrenaline, please deliberation astir nan consequences,” he pleaded.
“There are truthful galore different ways to person fun.”
The tragic inclination has shocked others successful nan Big Apple arsenic well.
“My gosh, it’s truthful sad,” Corona resident Maria Larios said. “I spot a batch of kids moving and doing flips connected apical of nan moving train.
“My 10-year-old girl gets excited erstwhile she sees them and says, ‘Oh my God, mummy, look astatine those kids connected apical of nan subway!'” Larios said. “I show her really vulnerable it is and show her to ne'er do it.”
Iris Mota, an 18-year-old organization assemblage student, says she sees nan surfers connected a regular basis.
“I spot subway surfers a lot, astatine slightest erstwhile a month,” she said. “They’re mostly middle-schoolers, truthful betwixt 12 and 14. It’s mostly boys. I’m amazed to perceive 2 girls fell.
“These kids cognize nan dangers but they’re still doing it,” Mota said. “They’re doing it for societal media clout.”
Jorge Navarro, a 22-year-old busboy from Queens, said it seems it’s happening “more than ever.”
“They’re very young,” he said. “I consciousness they’re chasing an adrenalin unreserved and nickname connected Instagram. Social media makes them do stupid things.”
In summation to Sorzano’s decease past week, 11-year-old Cayden Thompson was struck successful nan caput by a debased metallic beam and killed while riding connected apical of a G train successful Brooklyn connected Sept. 16.
Five group were killed successful incidents past year.