{"id":278294,"date":"2025-10-04T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278294\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:59:10","slug":"2-teen-girls-dead-after-suspected-subway-surfing-incident-in-n-y-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278294\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Teen Girls Dead After Suspected Subway Surfing Incident in N.Y.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two teenage girls have died following an apparent subway surfing accident in Brooklyn<\/li>\n<li>The bodies of the girls were discovered in the early morning hours of Saturday, Oct. 4<\/li>\n<li>Subway surfing \u2014 which is a growing trend in New York City \u2014 entails riding on the outside of a moving subway train<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Two teenage girls in New York City have died after a suspected <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/subway-surfing-survivor-warns-other-teenagers-against-the-trend-11713906\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subway surfing accident<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Police responded to a 911 call at the Marcy Avenue and Broadway subway station in the borough of Brooklyn on Saturday, Oct. 4, at approximately 3:10 a.m. local time, per a statement to PEOPLE from the New York City Police Department (NYPD).\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cUpon arrival, officers observed two unidentified females, unconscious and unresponsive,\u201d the statement said.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The teens \u2014 whose identities have not yet\u00a0been released \u2014 were pronounced dead at the scene. An investigation into the incident is currently ongoing, the NYPD said.\n<\/p>\n<p> N.Y.C. subway train (stock image).<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> In a statement to PEOPLE, New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) President Demetrius Crichlow said the tragedy involved subway &#8220;surfing,\u201d which entails riding on the outside of a moving subway train.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking that two young girls are gone because they somehow thought riding outside a subway train was an acceptable game. Parents, teachers and friends need to be clear with loved ones: Getting on top of a subway car isn\u2019t \u2018surfing\u2019 \u2014 it\u2019s suicide,\u201d Crichlow said.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_17-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> He added that the families of the teens, as well as the transit workers who discovered the victims, were left \u201chorribly shaken by this tragedy.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Four people died from subway surfing incidents in New York City in 2024, the NYPD told PEOPLE. There were 162 subway surfing-related arrests in the city in 2024, and there have been 128 arrests so far this year.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_23-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), the parent agency of the NYCTA, currently has an active <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/safety-and-security\/subway-surfing\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">public information campaign<\/a> designed to educate the public \u2014 especially young people \u2014 on the dangers of subway surfing. The campaign features the slogan, \u201cRide inside, stay alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Two teenage girls have died following an apparent subway surfing accident in Brooklyn The bodies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":278295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-278294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115318617782791060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}