The heartbroken mother of a teenager who died after falling from the roof of a subway car last weekend said she is so distraught she doesn’t want to live and pleaded with other children not to take part in The dangerous trick of social networks..

“Stop surfing (on the subway), it’s not a game,” mother María Elena Ortiz, 31, told The Post on Tuesday, between heartbreaking sobs. “If you die, think of the pain you will cause your family. Please children, don’t do it.

“I don’t want to live now,” Ortiz, a cleaner from Jackson Heights, Queens, added as she spoke through a translator. “I feel so desperate. “She was my baby.”

A family friend named Ever also said that no one knew that 13-year-old Krystel Romero was riding on top of the trains; They didn’t even think she took the subway.

“They were doing it on social media,” Ever said of Romero and her 14-year-old friend, who was seriously injured when the two girls fell from a number 7 train in Corona on Sunday night.

“Social media is crazy right now. They just want likes,” Ever said. “Don’t take risks just for TikTok likes. “They think they can make money with their social networks.”

His comments echoed those of Mayor Eric Adams, who spoke about Romero’s death at his weekly news conference Tuesday.

“I don’t know if we really understand what social media is doing to our kids,” Adams said. “Social media has radicalized and kidnapped our children.

“It’s unimaginable that you can ride a subway train and 10 million people see it, and we prove that time and time again,” Hizzoner continued. “They are more impressionable at such young ages. You know, when you’re a kid, you walk out of a karate movie and start kicking like Bruce Lee. And that’s the same thing.”

In another unrelated news conference, Metropolitan Transit Authority CEO Janno Lieber said the agency “has done a lot to try to turn back this terrible and dangerous trend” and “will keep pushing.”

That includes “thousands and thousands” of printed and verbal messages flashing and playing on the subway system, as well as asking social media companies to remove viral clips as soon as they are posted.

“We’re always checking every day to make sure they get taken down and don’t get away,” Lieber said. “New Yorkers are heartbroken that children (many of them simply good children) are being injured and even, God forbid, killed because of this dangerous activity.”

But it is unclear whether the campaign is working.

The depth of the problem was revealed once again when Romero became the sixth person to die while riding the subway this year, a devastating toll that has already surpassed the 2023 mark of five deaths.

The teenager and her friend were traveling on a southbound 7 train when They fell between cars and were run over. at the 111th Street station around 11 p.m. Sunday, police said.

Romero was pronounced dead at the scene right after her horrific fall, leaving her mother “really in shock,” Ever said.

“Krystel’s mom told her not to do anything like this,” he said. “I don’t know what made her make this decision… She fell for the likes on TikTok.”

Romero’s friend was in critical condition at Elmhurst Hospital on Monday; Sources told The Post she had a skull fracture, a brain hemorrhage and couldn’t breathe on her own.

The accident closely followed a similar one in which a 13-year-old boy died. Adolfo Sorzano, who died surfing the subway last week in Queens.

“Please don’t ride (on top of) the subway,” Adolfo Sanabria, his heartbroken father, told the Post on Monday as he begged other children not to try the risky trick. “Please think about the pain this will cause your parents.”

The MTA’s Lieber said the city needs parents and schools to “put hard pressure on kids who have shown a propensity to do this, because we have to save their lives.”

“Please! Parents, teachers and other caregivers: make sure children understand that this is not a game. We need people to pull back on children when they engage in this,” she said.

“They can’t risk their lives,” Lieber continued. “This is not like a video game, you don’t get another chance. You can’t just reboot. This is an opportunity. If you lose, if you do something stupid, you will lose your life.”

Adams echoed this, saying parents “need to be involved.”

“They have a role to play in this partnership,” he said.

Ever, the family friend, said the same thing Tuesday.

“It’s not about removing videos, it’s about parents having to tell their kids, ‘If you make stupid videos, this is what could happen to you,’” he said.

“Children, please listen to your parents,” he continued. “Think of your parents, think of your family. You could end up like this.”

—Additional reporting by Joe Marino