{"id":304089,"date":"2026-07-23T20:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304089\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:31:09","slug":"nyc-girl-16-hits-beam-during-subway-surfing-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304089\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC girl, 16, hits beam during subway surfing stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old girl struck a beam during a dangerous subway surfing stunt in Queens \u2014 and miraculously survived, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was riding on top of the southbound A train pulling into the Broad Channel station around 3:12 p.m. Wednesday when she suddenly rammed into a beam overhead, according to police and law-enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66601563;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40070922\" width=\"393\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/flor-elizabeth-cepeda-guaraca-16-135301456.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters rescue a teen injured while subway surfing, her body hanging off the train roof.\" class=\"wp-image-40070922\"  \/>A 16-year-old girl miraculously survived when she struck a bream while riding on top of the southbound A train pulling into the Broad Channel station Thursday. TikTok\/@sergioenriquez883<\/p>\n<p>Video posted to social media shows the teen laying limp across the roof of the stopped train before multiple firefighters carefully removed her \u2014 as stranded commuters looked on and NYPD cops attempted to keep order.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was conscious and alert and was taken to the Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where she was treated for a broken femur and listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe train\u2019s not gonna move after this,\u201d one frustrated straphanger could be heard saying at the scene. \u201cThank God she got off safe and she\u2019s alive though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gotta give a shout-out to the firefighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD revealed in May that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/27\/us-news\/dozens-of-repeat-subway-surfers-as-young-as-10-have-been-saved-as-cops-struggle-to-curb-deadly-trend\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">subway surfing remains so horrifyingly common<\/a> that police have nabbed at least 60 repeat offenders as young as 10 years old since they began cracking down five years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old girl struck a beam during a dangerous subway surfing stunt in Queens \u2014 and miraculously survived,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,141,9,24,56,63,65,64,19781,615,58],"class_list":["post-304089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-stunts","tag-subway","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304089","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=304089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}