I don’t know if it’s the influx of transplants, post-COVID disregard for other people, or some combination of additional random factors, but this has become unacceptable.
For reference I live in Astoria and mainly take the N/W and 4/5 trains at the 59th/Lex transfer.
I know I sound like a cranky elder millennial but I have lived in NYC in 20 years and I have NEVER seen people move into a subway car and just stop funneling in at the rate I have seen this past year. Not to mention the number of people who straddle in a hip-wide stance while wearing their backpacks and refuse to “crowd in”, take off their backpacks, and stand a bit more “strait and narrow”.
It feels claustrophobic and suffocating but mostly it’s the lack of common courtesy that really gets me.
Anyone else? I know backpacks have taken over with so many hybrid workers and return to office mandates, but come on, people. Move in, take off your Herschel/Fjallraven/Osprey/etc. and be a decent straphanger.
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