BAY RIDGE – One of the two girls who died on Saturday while subway surfing atop a Brooklyn-bound J train was from Bay Ridge.
The Brooklynite was identified as Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, who lived in the neighborhood with her parents and attended J.H.S. 259 William McKinley.
Cops said at 3:10 a.m., they found Mukhtarov and Ebba Morina, 13, from Manhattan, at the Marcy Avenue subway station unconscious and unresponsive. Emergency medical services pronounced them dead at the scene.
“It’s heartbreaking that two young girls are gone because they somehow thought riding outside a subway train was an acceptable game,” said Demetrius Crichlow, president of Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit. “Parents, teachers and friends need to be clear with loved ones: Getting on top of a subway car isn’t ‘surfing’ — it’s suicide.”…