New York teen arrested for subway surfing just days after dying in similar stunt

A 17-year-old boy was arrested for subway surfing in Queens on Wednesday, just two days after another teenager was killed while performing the same stunt on the Williamsburg Bridge.

Police said the teenager, whose name has not been released due to his age, was charged with reckless endangerment shortly after 10:15 p.m. at Queensboro Plaza after passengers on the northbound No. 7 train notified authorities.

The police said he was in the last car of the train. According to law enforcement sources, he has no previous arrests.

The arrest is the latest example of a dangerous trend that has killed or injured daredevils from the Big Apple, including 15-year-old Zachary Nazario, who was mortally wounded while riding a northbound J train on Monday.

Sources said Nazario’s girlfriend started climbing the train behind him as he raced across the bridge, and when he turned to look at her, his head hit a metal beam. According to police, he was thrown from the train and fell under it.

“The family is hurt,” his devastated mom Norma Nazario said outside her Alphabet City apartment on Tuesday, calling her son “a very, very good kid.”

One mother whose son was seriously injured in January – also while riding a train across the Williamsburg Bridge – urged city teens to stop this risky stunt.

“I was lucky, although I don’t know if my son will ever fully recover,” the mother, who asked not to be named, told The Post on Wednesday.

“When did it happen [to Nazario] the other day I had survivor guilt,” she said. “I wish I could do something so the other mother and family don’t go through what I’m going through.”

She added: “One of the first steps we need to take is to stop giving this cool name.

“It’s not like riding a wave in the ocean,” she said. “There’s nothing cool about blowing your brains out.”