{"id":139188,"date":"2026-02-19T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:48:07","slug":"teens-family-says-he-was-left-to-die-after-botched-tiktok-stunt-on-queensboro-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139188\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen’s Family Says He Was ‘Left To Die’ After Botched TikTok Stunt On Queensboro Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUEENS, NY \u2014 The family of a 16-year-old boy who had to be rescued from the Queensboro Bridge after falling 50 feet down a shaft has said he was “left to die\u201d when his friends ran off and are demanding an investigation. <\/p>\n

In a petition posted to Change.org<\/a>, the family says 16-year-old Frankie was “abandoned and left to die during their worst and most traumatic moment of their life.”<\/p>\n

The family is accusing the teen’s friends of recording the incident and posting the video online instead of calling for help. <\/p>\n

The teen is believed to have gotten stuck after he allegedly planned to post his stunt on TikTok, police said. <\/p>\n

He was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell in critical condition. <\/p>\n

The family says that Frankie’s survival is “nothing short of a miracle.” The teen still faces a long road of surgeries, recovery, rehabilitation and a long list of medical bills. <\/p>\n

The petition is demanding that police investigate and charge the teen’s friends who “left the victim for hours to rot”on the bridge. A separate fundraiser was created to help cover emergency care, surgeries, hospital stays and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

As of Thursday, the petition has over 900 signatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 The family of a 16-year-old boy who had to be rescued from the Queensboro Bridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-139188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139188","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=139188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}