{"id":241516,"date":"2026-05-23T05:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241516\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:45:08","slug":"nyc-subway-surfing-stunt-leaves-teen-dead-another-critical-at-williamsburg-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241516\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC subway surfing stunt leaves teen dead, another critical at Williamsburg Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy is dead and an 18-year-old is fighting for his life after a subway surfing stunt turned tragic on the Williamsburg Bridge Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The thrill-seeking duo was discovered unconscious on the J\/M line tracks around 6:50 p.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The younger teen died as a result of injuries consistent with a fall. <\/p>\n<p>The older surfer was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39465712\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2025-two-people-fell-off-128534084.jpg\" alt=\"A 14-year-old boy is dead and an 18-year-old is fighting for his life after a subway surfing stunt turned tragic on the Williamsburg Bridge.\" class=\"wp-image-39465712\"  \/>A 14-year-old boy is dead and an 18-year-old is fighting for his life after a subway surfing stunt turned tragic on the Williamsburg Bridge. Robert Mecea for New York Post<\/p>\n<p>NYC Transit president Demetrius Crichlow said in a statement that the incident \u201cis heartbreaking and knowing that riding outside trains is going to end tragically, it\u2019s incomprehensible \u2014 and pains me as a parent \u2014 that it continues to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m imploring families, friends, teachers, and others coming into contact with teens engaging in these suicidal stunts to get them to stop,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>The Williamsburg Bridge is known as dangerous among subway surfers.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, a 12-year-old Brooklyn girl was killed in a subway surfing accident \u2014 reminiscent of Friday\u2019s events.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39465603\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/comp-4.jpg\" alt=\"Two subway trains on elevated tracks with a bridge and a domed building in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-39465603\"  \/>Two J trains, the Williamsburg Bridge in the background. <\/p>\n<p>Zemfira Mukhtarov frequently posted her death-defying adventures on <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/07\/us-news\/12-year-old-girl-posted-terrifying-videos-before-nyc-subway-surfing-tragedy-does-whatever-she-wants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>, and was reportedly obsessed with thrill-seeking.<\/p>\n<p>She was found dead on the Williamsburg Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always working, and I don\u2019t know what she\u2019s doing, what time she\u2019s doing,\u201d her grieving mom Nataliya Rudenko, of Ukraine, told The Post. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne time I see she is on the top of the Williamsburg Bridge, [pretending to] hold our city on her hand.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/07\/us-news\/12-year-old-girl-posted-terrifying-videos-before-nyc-subway-surfing-tragedy-does-whatever-she-wants\/#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy is dead and an 18-year-old is fighting for his life after a subway surfing stunt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,9,56,63,65,64,19781,615,58,44195],"class_list":["post-241516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-stunts","tag-subway","tag-us-news","tag-williamsburg-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241516","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=241516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}