A 16-year-old Long Island boy fell 50 feet into a shaft at the Queensboro Bridge while trying to pull off a boneheaded TikTok challenge, police and law enforcement sources said.
Cops responded to a 911 call on the Manhattan 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.
The teen, who is from Lynbrook in Nassau County, was not identified.
Sources told The Post the boy was filming a stunt to post on TikTok when he fell.
The popular online app has come under attack in recent years for allowing a string of dangerous and potentially dangerous stunts to be widely shared and not removed from the platform.
Those include the Benadryl Challenge, which has TikTokers popping at least a dozen tablets of the name brand antihistamine, the Tide Challenge, which encourages kids to munch on laundry detergent capsules, and the Fire Challenge, which inexplicably has teens lathering themselves with rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer and setting themselves on fire for a thrill.
