Subway etiquette

I don't ask a lot of people that live, work, or visit this fine city of ours...but I do feel that if you do enter the city and use the subways, you should make it your business to follow a few basic rules of etiquette.

• When using the escalators to enter or exit the subway stations...please stand to the right, walk to the left. You as a visitor may have all the time in the world to go visit FAO Schwartz, see a Broadway Show, or hop on a tour bus to go to the West Village to see the street Carrie's Sex and the City apartment is on, but other folks have to get to work.


• Fashionistas: I know your bag is lovely and you spent two whole paychecks to afford it so people think you have money, but does it need it's own seat on the subway?


• Staring: We live in New York. People are interesting. There is a lot to look at...you've got your freaks, hotties, the homeless, models, your stiffs, transgenders, THE WORKS. But take a peak, maybe two, and look away.


• The center pole. Does your whole body really need to lean against it? Ever consider that there may be some other people that may need to hold on for balance?