{"id":136242,"date":"2026-02-17T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136242\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:30:22","slug":"teen-rescued-after-botched-tiktok-stunt-on-nyc-queensboro-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136242\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Rescued After Botched TikTok Stunt On NYC Queensboro Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEENS, NY \u2014 A 16-year-old boy had to be rescued by emergency personnel after losing his footing and falling down a shaft on the Queensboro Bridge in a botched TikTok stunt on Monday, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters found the boy in a shaft on the Manhattan-bound side of the bridge around 9 p.m. Monday, the FDNY said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The teen is believed to have gotten stuck after he allegedly planned to record his stunt to post on TikTok, officials told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/17\/boy-16-falls-50-feet-down-shaft-on-nyc-queensboro-bridge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the New York Daily News<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The boy fell 50 feet after losing his footing, according to reports. He was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p>More than 75 firefighters and EMS personnel responded to the scene, the FDNY said. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 A 16-year-old boy had to be rescued by emergency personnel after losing his footing and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-136242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}