A Bronx subway surfer in his 30s was killed in 2017 after falling off and getting run over. In 2016, a 25-year-old Instagram star was killed while trying to subway surf in Brooklyn, while apparently intoxicated. As a 1991 story in the New York Times about subway surfing put it, the “risk is the lure”. One thing seems constant throughout the decades: the victims are young, male and impulsive. Local newspaper archives mention people getting maimed or killed riding on top of trains as early as 1904 – the year the subway opened – when two boys, 13 and 14, were struck by a low bridge while riding on top of a Grand Central-bound railcar, killing one of them and injuring the other. The act of train surfing dates back more than a century in New York City. So I don’t have clearcut answers to how we stop people from doing this.” “A lot of people I know who I told this to are dead right now. Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Imagesĭ-Side swore off train surfing after Nasad’s death. ‘Full speed going over the Williamsburg Bridge, we could hear footsteps on top,’ Ken said. It was like: ‘Oh shit, look, I could go get a rush.’” He was killed in 2002 while he was train surfing an uptown 1 train and apparently hit a support beam. Then tragedy struck D-Side’s best friend, Alex Nasad, a graffiti artist who went by Drone. And then they keep chasing that over and over again.” Why does someone skydive? Why does someone use drugs? They like what it makes them feel. “It’s a good feeling, even though it’s completely meaningless. The experience was “a rush unlike anything else” and even addicting. Ken said it was “sad seeing their careless attitude toward life, succumbing to peer pressure and doing these incredibly dumb actions.”Ī New Yorker in his late 30s called D-Side told the Guardian he had started subway surfing with his friends as a teenager, after he missed his uptown 6 train one day and decided to grab on to the back. ![]() “I was quite concerned, obviously: if someone slips and falls, it’s game over.” “Full speed going over the Williamsburg Bridge, we could hear footsteps on top. Then they used the railings between the subway cars to climb on to the roof as the train chugged over the Williamsburg Bridge. ‣ Challenges will start and end universally for all players.Ken, a Brooklyn resident, told the Guardian he was on an M train last week departing Manhattan’s Delancey-Essex station when a group of about eight boys wearing backpacks, some of whom looked as young as 12, boarded and began “hyping each other up”. ‣ Moved Challenge start and end times so that their timers work like the daily challenge. ![]()
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