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.
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