‘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.
“My gosh, it’s so sad,” Corona resident Maria Larios said. “I see a lot of kids running and doing flips on top of the moving train.
“My 10-year-old daughter gets excited when she sees them and says, ‘Oh my God, mummy, look at those kids on top of the subway!’” Larios said. “I tell her how dangerous it is and tell her to never do it.”
Iris Mota, an 18-year-old community college student, says she sees the surfers on a regular basis.
“I see subway surfers a lot, at least once a month,” she said. “They’re mostly middle-schoolers, so between 12 and 14. It’s mostly boys. I’m surprised to hear two girls fell.
“These kids know the dangers but they’re still doing it,” Mota said. “They’re doing it for social media clout.”
Jorge Navarro, a 22-year-old busboy from Queens, said it seems it’s happening “more than ever.”
“They’re very young,” he said. “I feel they’re chasing an adrenalin rush and recognition on Instagram. Social media makes them do stupid things.”
In addition to Sorzano’s death last week, 11-year-old Cayden Thompson was struck in the head by a low metal beam and killed while riding on top of a G train in Brooklyn on Sept. 16.
Five people were killed in incidents last year.
