A group of people were recently filmed running on top of a moving train as it crossed the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn, US.
He was crushed by the train as it entered Manhattan after a ride across the Williamsburg bridge. In the clips, most of the suspects are seen wearing black. According to videos posted online, at least eight people were seen on top of two train cars.
Mostly wearing black, eight subway surfers were caught on camera on the roof of a J-train heading to Brooklyn from Manhattan's Lower East Side on Friday.
Transit crime in New York has sky rocketed in 2022 compared to 2021, with a 54 per cent increase. It remains unclear if the victim was still in the hospital, as of Sunday morning. He was arrested Tuesday after an eagle-eyed MTA worker recognized him from a wanted poster and flagged down cops A group of at least eight subway surfers were seen on the roof of a train on the J-line heading towards Brooklyn on Friday The incident comes just after police arrested a man who was seen on surveillance video tossing a 52-year-old woman onto the subway tracks in the Bronx in a random attack on June 5. - Footage of the daredevils was recorded from afar and in the Lower East Side
New Yorker Chris "Goose" Gosling said he was surprised to see people standing on top of a J train as it crossed the Williamsburg Bridge.
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A teen died subway surfing in New York City in 2019, while a 32-year-old man perished doing the same thing two years later.
Had a [friend’s[ brother die surfing back in the day. One user said of the behavior, “That’s just stupid. The same clips from Brooklyn were shared to r/nyc on reddit.
Subway surfers ran along the top of trains Friday heading towards Brooklyn, and social media users had a lot to say about it.
“When the train arrived at Lafayette Street station, the stuntman loosened his grip on the doorway and walked into the station as if nothing happened,” according to Breitbart News. In 2018, a Brooklyn man was filmed clinging to the outside of a New York City subway as the riders inside watched in disbelief. “I heard a story of a student who did this when I was younger; he died bc the train went into a tunnel and he didn’t make it down in time,” one person wrote.