Heart-stopping video captures NYC subway surfing, as tragic trend claims another teen victim: They do it every day

Frightening video shows a person running on top of a moving train at the same Queens station where a teenage girl died and her young friend was critically injured while subway surfing over the weekend.A heart-pounding clip taken Thursday by a concerned New Yorker near the 111th Street station in Corona shows someone precariously jogging along the top of an elevated subway car.A second clip from April shows at least five youngsters atop another subway car in the same corridor along Roosevelt Avenue.

“They do it every day,” Cara Thomas, who shot the earlier video and whose balcony overlooks the elevated tracks, told The Post on Monday.“I see it almost every day.

And they do it on the top of the train, the express.They’re mostly in groups of four or six,” Thomas said.“It’s so crazy.

It scares the hell out of me.”On Sunday, two teen girls plummeted from a southbound 7 train at around 11 p.m.at the 111th Street station, leaving one with life-threatening injuries and killing the second — the sixth subway surfing fatality this year.A 13-year-old Brooklyn girl was pronounced dead at the scene while her 14-year-old companion remained in critical condition on Monday, law-enforcement sources said.

Blood splattered on the sidewalk and empty sneakers marked the chilling scene in the aftermath.News of the latest senseless death brought a look of anguish to the face of Adolfo Sanabria, whose 13-year-old son, Adolfo Sorzano, was killed last week in another Queens subway stunt.“Please don’t get carried away by a social media challenge.You have autonomy.

You can say not to your friends,” Sanabria implored city teens taking part in the TikTok and Instagram-inspired trend.“Please think about the pain it will cause your parents.When you’re in that moment, that moment of adrenaline, please think about the consequences,” he pleaded.“There are so many other ways to have fun.”The tragic trend has shocked others in the Big Apple as well.

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