It's the Brian Lair show on WNYC. Welcome back, everybody. I'm Matt Katz, reporter in the WNYC

Gothamist Newsroom filling in for Brian today. We'll end with a few takes on New York

City etiquette. My guest is Nick Layton, who hosts the aptly named podcast. Were you raised

by wolves? He has a recent piece in Gothamist called 10 etiquette rules to not be the worst in New York

City. Among his advice, be ready when you get to the cashier.

If you're not ready to order, let the person behind you go next.

Etiquette starts, writes Nick, with the simple acknowledgement that other people exist.

Hi, Nick, welcome to WNYC.

Thanks so much for having me. This is a treat.

And listeners, what are your New York City etiquette rules or your questions about how to be conscientious in this big city?

212-433, WNYC, 212433-9692. Okay, Nick, by way of introduction here, what is your particular interest in etiquette and manners?

Like, why are you so interested? Oh, golly. I mean, for me, I don't want to be wrong. And so I want

to know what the right thing to do is in all situations. So I definitely pay a lot of attention

to what that might be wherever I am in the world.

And certainly in New York City, we have some specific things that we kind of do here.

Yeah, yeah, very much so.

And like, for example, the sidewalks.

Your first rule is treat the sidewalk like a highway.

Can you explain what you mean?

Yeah, I mean, if you wouldn't do it on a highway, don't do it on our sidewalks. So if you're driving on the sidewalk like a highway. Can you explain what you mean? Yeah, I mean, if you wouldn't do it on a

highway, don't do it on our sidewalks. So if you're driving on the road, you don't just stop in the fast lane.

You don't exit a highway across traffic without signaling. You don't stop on the off ramp.

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