Teen falls 50-feet into shaft on NYC bridge #shorts

A 16-year-old Long Island boy fell 50 feet into a shaft at the Queensboro Bridge while trying to pull off a TikTok challenge, police and law enforcement sources said.

Cops responded to a 911 call on the Queens end of the East River around 5:45 p.m. Monday and found the teen stuck in the shaft, an NYPD spokesperson said Tuesday.

First-responders pulled the boy to safety and rushed him to New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, where he was listed in critical but stable condition, police said.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/02/17/us-news/teen-falls-50-feet-into-shaft-on-nyc-bridge-as-tiktok-stunt-goes-wrong-sources/

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