"Identification of the girls is pending with families being notified, NYPD said. The investigation, including into any social media posts leading up to the deaths, is ongoing. A partial suspension of train service between lower Manhattan and Brooklyn occurred as authorities responded. "It's heartbreaking that two young girls are gone because they somehow thought riding outside a subway train was an acceptable game," Demetrius Crichlow, president of New York City Transit, said in a statement. "Parents, teachers, and friends need to be clear with loved ones: getting on top of a subway car isn't 'surfing' − it's suicide.""
"The trend surfaced on social media and has led some to film and share the dangerous stunt. The girls' deaths weren't the only suspected subway surfing incidents among teens as of late. The New York Daily News reported a 14-year-old boy was hospitalized hours earlier on Oct. 3 after he fell from the top of a Manhattan-bound 7 train in Queens."
Two teenage girls were found unconscious and unresponsive on top of a J train at Marcy Avenue station around 3:10 a.m. after the train crossed the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn. First-responders pronounced the girls dead at the scene. Identification is pending and families have been notified. Investigators are examining social media posts and circumstances leading up to the deaths, and service between lower Manhattan and Brooklyn was partially suspended during the response. Officials say the deaths are likely related to subway surfing, a social-media-driven stunt that has caused injuries and multiple fatalities among youth in recent years.
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