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A 14-year-old boy is dead and another teen is in critical condition after officials say they fell from the top of a New York City subway train they were riding on as it passed through the Williamsburg Bridge on Friday.<\/p>\n

The teens were allegedly “subway surfing” on top of the J train as it passed from the bridge into Manhattan when the 14-year-old fell from from the bridge and into a lot near Delancey Street and Lewis Street, according to police.<\/p>\n

\"Anadolu<\/p>\n

Anadolu Agency via Getty Images, FILE – PHOTO: In this July 28, 2021 file photo, a subway train crosses the Williamsburg Bridge in New York.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old fell onto the tracks at the location, according to police.<\/p>\n

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They were both transported to Bellevue Hospital where the 14-year-old was pronounced dead, police said. The 18-year-old victim was in critical condition as of Saturday.<\/p>\n

New York City Transit has raised alarms about the growing number of subway surfing incidents over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

There were 928 reports of people riding outside of trains in 2022, according to the news website The City<\/a>. Prior to 2019, there were 490 reports of people riding outside of trains in 2019, according to The City.<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/p>\n

Andrew Lichtenstein\/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE – PHOTO: In this July 21, 2014, file photo, a J train passes through Williamsburg’s south side in New York.<\/p>\n

Last year, five people were killed in subway surfing related incidents, according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority.<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Friday’s incident “a preventable tragedy.”<\/p>\n

“No family should get a call like that,” the mayor said in a statement posted on social media. “Subway surfing is deadly. My heart breaks for the families of these young people.”<\/p>\n

NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow echoed the mayor’s sentiments.<\/p>\n

“This is heartbreaking and knowing that riding outside trains is going to end tragically, it’s incomprehensible-and pains me as a parent-that it continues to happen,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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The MTA has worked to combat subway surfing with public service announcements, media campaigns and other outreach in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

\"MTA<\/p>\n

MTA – PHOTO: Tne New York City Transit Authority released this PSA about subway surfing.<\/p>\n

They have also called on social media companies to take down posts of pictures and videos people subway surfing more quickly.<\/p>\n

“I’m imploring families, friends, teachers, and others coming into contact with teens engaging in these suicidal stunts to get them to stop,” Crichlow said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy is dead and another teen is in critical condition after officials say they fell from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[951,75,84,83,9,24,25013,63,63406,11669,44195],"class_list":["post-241822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-critical-condition","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-transit","tag-nyc","tag-subway-surfing","tag-subway-train","tag-williamsburg-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241822","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=241822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}