“4 and 5 don’t exist when you’re 6’6’.”Michael R. Bloomberg, Mr. de Blasio’s predecessor and a regular subway rider, agreed with Mr. Byford that standing was the best option. “I always stand,” Mr. Bloomberg posted on Twitter, alongside a photo of him reading a newspaper on the train, although he was committing his own etiquette lapse by blocking the door. (The criticism is fair: Subway trains are late about 20 percent of the time.) One rider complained that the seat closest to the door could inspire a robbery. Mr. Bautista, 20, said his train was empty on New Year’s Eve because he gets on at the first D stop in the Bronx.

Source: New York Times January 02, 2020 22:45 UTC