NYPD’s teenage ‘Commissioner for a Day’ is on a mission to end deadly subway surfing through social media

Source: New York Post

He wants to stop subway surfing dead in its tracks! A bright Bronx teenager who won the NYPD’s annual ‘Commissioner for a Day’ award Wednesday is on a mission to end deadly subway surfing through social media, he told The Post. Carmelo Vereen, 18, was given the honorary role after penning an essay on how to “deter young people” from the daredevil stunt, which has killed 14 New Yorkers in the past two years. “Kids are subway surfing as young as 11, so their minds aren’t really fully comprehending what they’re doing,”  Vereen, an 11th grader at the Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters, told The Post.