After the latest young teen subway surfing death, MTA officials are working to warn other teens of the dangers.
On Monday, an 11-year-old from Park Slope, Brooklyn was killed after falling off the subway train and onto the tracks after pulling the dangerous stunt.
At the Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, neighbors of that 11-year-old boy say when they were young, they flirted with death too.
“We did it as kids. I’m 54 now. It’s something I wouldn’t dream of doing at this age,” neighbor Jenar Ortiz said.
They hope kids today will wake up.
“We did a lot of dumb things. We would ride the elevators. We called it elevator surfing. Jumping from one elevator to the other you know. Talking to people as they got on the elevator while they were riding. The most dangerous and suicidal thing that you could possibly do,” Ortiz said.
The 11-year-old’s death is now the fourth – and youngest – child to die this year by subway surfing.
The others are all teenagers ages 13, 14, and 15 years old.
According to the NYPD, this time last year there were 3 deaths from riding outside the train.