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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore in New York

‘The risk is the lure’: subway surfing in New York City continues to claim young lives

Jaida Rivera with her son Cayden.
Jaida Rivera with her son Cayden. Photograph: Courtesy Leav & Steinberg LLP

Jaida Rivera’s 11-year son, Cayden, was supposed to be in school at Brooklyn’s Fort Greene preparatory academy on the morning of 16 September last year. Staff saw him in the cafeteria after his grandmother dropped him off at 7.45am.

But 30 minutes later he was marked as absent. Cayden had somehow slipped out, boarded a G subway train traveling south and was riding on top of one of its carriages when he fell on to the tracks at the Fourth Avenue-Ninth Street station just after 10.00am. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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