It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Tiffany Hansen filling in for Brian who is off today and we're going to take a little bit of a lighter turn now and we're going to talk about man spreading, nail clipping, music blasting through phones, speakers. We're talking, of course, about subway etiquette.

People have always acted inappropriately on New York subways.

I think that's fairly accurate.

It's even, there are even Instagram accounts who are dedicated to the fact that people act inappropriately

on Subways. But since ridership has returned to near pre-pandemic levels, it seems like some of us may have forgotten

how to coexist courteously on the country's largest mass transit system.

Listeners, I know you have thoughts.

We would love to hear them.

212 433 9692.

Have you seen the MTA's new little placards in the subways that say courtesy counts, don't be somebody's

subway story. Tell us your subway story. 212, 433 9694. You call us you can text us joining us to talk about all of it is

Anna Lay from the New York Times who wrote the unwritten rules of riding the New York City

subway good morning Anna good morning all right I think we have a sense now that

ridership you know whether we talk about specific numbers or not,

ridership is on the way, on the way back up.

People, yeah, we're getting a little more crowded.

We're in each other's spaces a little bit more.

Do we have a sense other than anecdotally is behavior any better or worse

than it was pre-Pandemic during the pandemic? Well I mean I think you have more people so naturally there's

going to be more bad behavior and there are today about 4 million people

writing the subway on any given weekday roughly.

And that's a lot of people.

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