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MTA renews anti-subway browsing efforts with advert marketing campaign
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MTA renews anti-subway browsing efforts with advert marketing campaign

Last updated: June 11, 2025 10:31 pm
Editorial Board Published June 11, 2025
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Transit officers are hoping a brand new advert marketing campaign, a brand new spokesman and some subway automotive modifications will proceed to drive down subway browsing deaths.

The MTA relaunched its “Ride Inside, Stay Alive” anti-subway browsing marketing campaign on Wednesday, this time with the assist of Queens-born skilled BMX bike rider Nigel Sylvester.

Like final 12 months’s initiative, the push includes a collection of recorded subway bulletins — by Sylvester, in addition to by New York Metropolis schoolchildren — in regards to the risks of using on the surface of a subway prepare, plus a collection of digital posters displayed on subway and platform screens.

MTA officers Shanifa Rieara and Demetrius Crichlow stand close to the doorway to Queens Plaza with BMX rider and anti-subway browsing spokesman Nigel Sylvester. (Evan Simko-Bednarski for New York Day by day Information)

“Subway surfing is going to get you injured or killed,” Sylvester says in a subway announcement recorded for the marketing campaign. “It’s pretty simple: Don’t do it.”

“I believe I can relate to these kids,” Sylvester stated Wednesday, when requested how an expert thrill seeker could be a position mannequin for security. “Kids can relate to me, and we can have a meaningful dialogue.”

Subway browsing has been a persistent, lethal drawback, with six deaths attributed to the apply final 12 months and 5 deaths in 2023. One other 25 individuals had been injured whereas using outdoors of trains in these two years.

The overwhelming majority of subway surfers are youngsters.

Thus far this 12 months, one particular person — a 13-year-old boy — has died from subway browsing, succumbing to his accidents days after falling off the highest of a No. 7 prepare in Queens.

Ads from the MTA's new campaign against subway surfing at the Queens Plaza E, M and R station. (Evan Simko-Bednarski for New York Daily News)Adverts from the MTA’s new marketing campaign in opposition to subway browsing on the Queens Plaza E, M and R station. (Evan Simko-Bednarski for New York Day by day Information)

“As a father of three children, I can’t imagine seeing my child on [top of] a train as that train barrels down the track,” stated NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow.

“I was a manager here on the [No.] 7 line,” Crichlow continued. “I’ve seen on a first-hand basis what happens to the children when they come into contact with a fixed, immovable object.”

The revamped marketing campaign focuses not simply on the hazards of subway browsing, however on the toll that children’ deaths tackle surviving households and buddies.

A 3-display advert unveiled Wednesday tells the fictionalized story, in comic-book kind, of a 12-year-old who falls from a prepare, and the horrors his dying inflicts on his buddies, his mom and the EMT who responds to the scene.

Ads from the MTA's new campaign against subway surfing at the Queens Plaza E, M and R station. (Evan Simko-Bednarski for New York Daily News)Adverts from the MTA’s new marketing campaign in opposition to subway browsing on the Queens Plaza E, M and R station. (Evan Simko-Bednarski for New York Day by day Information)

The MTA’s chief buyer officer, Shanifa Rieara, stated the marketing campaign concerned 43 such advertisements that will be rolled out over the subsequent 12 months.

Different bulletins targeted on the senselessness of a subway browsing dying.

“The rush from subway surfing is fleeting — the consequences are real,” Ahana Chandra, a pupil at Stuyvesant Excessive Faculty, stated in her subway announcement. “Six people died subway surfing last year, and for what?”

The advert marketing campaign comes amid a collection of different efforts to curb thrill-seeking subway deaths.

The transit company is within the early phases of testing add-on obstacles to coach vehicles in an effort make it more durable to climb as much as the roof.

Rieara additionally famous that the MTA’s efforts to get subway-surfing movies taken down from social media continues. Thus far this 12 months, she stated, roughly 1,800 such movies have been eliminated by platforms like X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

Initially Revealed: June 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM EDT

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