Mayor Eric Adams, Schools Chancellor David Banks and MTA Chair Janno Lieber will unveil a 14-point program to stop the dangerous practice.
They are gathering at the 33rd Street-Rawson Street subway station, which has been popular with teens surfing, many times in the hours after school.after entering that station and climbing onto the roof of a Number 7 subway car.
The victim, identified as Jevon Fraser, was taken to Cohen Children's Medical Center in critical condition with severe head trauma. He was pronounced dead a few hours later.14-year-olds Windinson Garcia and Brian Crespo got on top of a Manhattan-bound L train at the Broadway Junction stop on June 22 and were knocked off when the train entered the tunnel before reaching the Bushwick-Aberdeen Ave stop.The MTA keeps statistics on people seen riding on top of trains or in-between cars.
According to the NYPD, as of June 23, arrests for "unsafe riding," which includes subway surfing, more than doubled from this time last year.
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