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Two girls are found dead in New York after a fatal game of ‘subway surfing,’ authorities say

The deaths highlight a rising trend with five subway surfing fatalities in 2025, despite increased rescues and public safety efforts by NYPD and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

  • Two teenage girls were found dead on a New York City subway train, likely due to a dangerous trend known as 'subway surfing.'
  • Transit President Demetrius Crichlow described the incident as tragic and emphasized the risks associated with subway surfing.
  • The girls' deaths contribute to a troubling statistic, with five fatalities connected to subway surfing in 2023, raising concerns among officials about the trend.
  • Authorities are investigating the incident, including examining social media for related content, amidst a history of fatalities linked to this dangerous practice.
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Subway surfing is a social phenomenon that occurs primarily in New York City.

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Two teenagers were found dead at the top of a J line train that arrived at a metro station in Brooklyn this Saturday (4). According to the authorities, they seemed to practice subway surfing — a deadly trend fed by social networks and popular among some young people in New York. Read also: Sean 'Diddy' Combs is sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison Tong outside of the air: the day a volcanic eruption broke off an island of the Pacific; rem…

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One of the victims was 13 years old and was part of a group of 15 young people travelling in the convoy before accessing the outside.

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NEW YORK.- The NYPD found, on Saturday morning, two young people killed at a subway station in Brooklyn, in what the authorities described as an episode arising from the practice of subway surfing.Shortly after 3 a.m., police officers were contacted by a 911 call from Marcy Avenue Station, as reported by AP News.In that context, they found the two women who ended up being declared dead in the same place.The New York City President of Public Tran…

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Consternation in New York for what is considered a deadly fashion expanded on social media. Big Apple subway alerts jumped when two girls

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WNYW broke the news in San Francisco, United States on Saturday, October 4, 2025.
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