$7K reward for info on R train bandits as rogue riders’ photos are released

The NYPD and the transit national alike are asking for immoderate accusation that could pb to the apprehension of six suspects thought to beryllium down the chaotic late-night joyride of 2 stolen R trains past weekend.

John Chiarello, interim president of Transport Workers Union Local 100 — which represents much than 40,000 subway and autobus workers — said it would lucifer the NYPD’s $3,500 bounty connected the young bid hijackers, aft the NYPD released surveillance photos of the radical precocious Wednesday.

“A clump of reckless teens took a $20 cardinal portion of instrumentality retired of a unafraid transit layup area, endangering themselves, transit spot and transit workers who whitethorn good person been moving connected the tracks,” Chiarello said successful a statement. “I’m outraged that this theft occurred and [we are] determined to halt copycats.”

Police released surveillance video showing a radical of astir six radical who stole an R subway bid successful Queens. (NYPD)

The combined $7,000 reward comes arsenic constabulary issued an update with surveillance camera footage showing the teens getting disconnected a Manhattan-bound R bid aboriginal Sunday greeting astatine the 36th St. and Fourth Ave. halt successful Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Unlike successful antecedently released footage, 5 of the six suspects person their faces uncovered successful the presumption surveillance tape. One teen has a integer camera hung astir his neck.

Still photos released by constabulary amusement astatine slightest 1 fishy jumping a turnstile.

As antecedently reported by The News, the crooks are suspected of having breached into astatine slightest 2 sets of R160 subway cars portion they were being stored overnight connected the explicit way of Brooklyn’s Fourth Ave. line.

Cellphone video taken by 1 of the subway-stealing suspects and posted connected Instagram shows they traveled done astatine slightest 1 section presumption connected the explicit way and went done astatine slightest 1 signal.

The video shows respective of the illicit straphangers astatine the controls of 1 R160 subway car traveling astatine speeds upward of 30 mph. They whitethorn person passed astatine slightest 1 in-service bid during their joyride, with 1 of them shouting, “Train!” earlier telling another, “Check [the] vigor now,” seemingly to spot if they’d been spotted.

One of the rogue riders appears to beryllium sitting extracurricular connected the beforehand of the pb subway car, his feet dangling implicit the tracks.

Transit workers preparing to enactment the trains into work Sunday greeting discovered them retired of place, with overgarment covering the onboard information cameras and harm to the doorway locks connected astatine slightest 1 train.