A pair of teenage girls died early Saturday as they rode atop a J train rumbling into a Brooklyn station in the latest subway surfing death to grip the city, police said.
The two girls, believed to be between 13 and 15 years old, were found sprawled out on top of the last car of a J train as it entered the Marcy Ave. subway stop at Broadway in Williamsburg at around 3:10 a.m.
Both teens died on the Queens-bound train, cops said. Their names weren’t immediately released as police track down their relatives.
Detectives are investigating their deaths as subway surfing fatalities.
Train service along the J line was partially suspended between the Myrtle Ave. and Delancey St.-Essex St. stops for several hours as they continued their investigation. Normal train traffic resumed around 7 a.m.
At least three people have been killed subway surfing since July 4, when a 15-year-old boy died riding atop No. 7 train entering the Queensboro Plaza station.
In June, a 14-year-old Bronx subway surfer was critically injured when he fell from a northbound No. 5 train with two other teens near the Baychester Ave. stop.
Over the past several months, cops and the MTA have taken a multi-prong approach to discourage thrill seekers. In June, the MTA ramped up their “Ride Inside and Stay Alive” campaign featuring Queens-born BMX athlete Nigel Sylvester.
The NYPD also began flying drones along above-ground subway lines to keep an eye out for subway surfers.
Cops have apprehended about 200 subway surfers since the NYPD began using the drones, officials said.
“It’s heartbreaking that two young girls are gone because they somehow thought riding outside a subway train was an acceptable game,” NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said Saturday. “Parents, teachers and friends need to be clear with loved ones: Getting on top of a subway car isn’t ‘surfing’ — it’s suicide. I’m thinking of both the grieving families, and transit workers who discovered these children, all of whom have been horribly shaken by this tragedy.”
