Overview

• TikTok clips appear to show two youths operating aboveground R160 cars as a worker stands nearby during a daylight run in Queens.
• One sequence shows the train approaching 111th Street on the J line in Richmond Hill as the employee says, “Go, go, go, it’s green.”
• Another clip shows the employee holding a coffee and using a phone while a teen in an orange vest sits at the controls.
• NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow labeled the behavior “reckless and unacceptable,” and MTA CEO Janno Lieber said anyone who let an unqualified person drive “ought to be fired.”
• Officials have not verified when the footage was recorded or the participants’ identities, and the case comes after prior youth joyrides that prompted multiple arrests.