It is getting close to Thanksgiving and Christmas, prime tourist time for NYC. Here are some hints for a safe visit..

Rules of the Sidewalk

For NY’ers and Tourists

• WALK TO THE RIGHT, even if you are English, from OZ, or a leftist.
• Do not stop short.
• Do not do pirouettes in the middle of the street when lost.
• Do not walk five across the street as if you are playing Ringo Leevio or Red Rover, Red Rover let Fred Come Over.
• Drink your coffee at the coffee shop. The street is not a cocktail party or your cubicle, so do not hold your drink in front of you.

Here is a real get real data plan
SHUT UP!!! Now we know publicly how petty and inane you are privately.
• Take one ear bud and stick up your behind, so you will have stereo
• If you must take a call from The President or have a shuffle music emergency, why don’t you stand in the middle of the sidewalk to block traffic.
• Do not pace the sidewalk, you are not home in your jammies and slippers.
• Watch where you are going. You are on the phone, not us.

Just NY’ers
• Do not run, jog, or elbow your down the street between the walkers
• Do not ride your bike down the sidewalk. I know bikers think they are elevated live forms but pedestrians may disagree. And now it is illegal for anyone over the age of 12 to do so.
• Half the bikers do not know the rules, the other half ignore them. Let’s try and change that percentage.
• Sunday fathers-do not use your child’s stroller as a battering ram. If you are mad that you are divorced or stuck with the kids, take it on yourself not us.
• Dog walkers-try not to have the entire 20 foot lead extend across the sidewalk. Someone is going to step on your Chihuahua.

Tourists
• Look at the map either at the curb or next to a building not on a corner, the middle of the sidewalk, by garbage cans already blocking the street, or on the subway steps.
• If you must window shop do it by the windows and not from the middle of the sidewalk with binoculars.
• Jay-walking is a NYC sport. If you are going to wait for a light, get out of the way of those who want to break the law.
• If you are going to look up assign a designated seeing-eye tourist so others can pass.

Thank you
The Management

A couple of notes about photos.

If you want to take photos do realize that the pedestrian traffic will not stop for you. So either take them early in the am (before 7 am) before the streets are crowded with people going to work or make up your mind there will be strangers in your photos.

When trying to take pics of tall buildings do NOT step into the street to do so.
A couple of weeks ago saw a tourist almost run down by the 42 St crosstown when they just stepped out into the street to get a better shot of the Chrysler building. If someone had not pulled him back he would have been squashed.

Always good to hear from the resident NYC people who, if they had lawns, would yell at kids to get off.

This reminds me of Obama's remark about the CNBC debate.

There is the famous Woodlawn, which is a huge cemetery in the Bronx. Not a lot of yelling, but most people keep to themselves.

BR,starrs, consider this my like button.

Thanks, Tuscan.

"For NY’ers and Tourists"
I wonder if there's a version for other cities of the world = Paris, Rome, Istanbul, etc.

If so, I wonder if the writers of such rules for the host cities include suggestions such as...
"SHUT UP!!! Now we know publicly how petty and inane you are privately."

Of course, wherever the others live, they never complain about anything there. Never. Nothing. Or here. Nope, they are just annoyed when someone else complained first and beat them to it.

Who's annoyed?
We're laughing, not annoyed.

Well now isn't this a much more substantive topic than that thread about a formal dinner in NYC.

Alas, I have family that live at Woodlawn. I'm sure if you put your ear to the headstone you will hear a donnybrook or two.

Author, know thyself!

Alas the mythical land of the lounge has sprung a leak once again.

Besides childish passive/aggressive carping does anyone have anything of value to add?

Inaka

We visited Woodlawn last year, and if was a most interesting conglomeration of people. If people who visit NY have an interest in cemeteries, that should certainly visit Woodlawn and Green-Wood in Brooklyn.

I thought my mention of family in Woodlawn was clever and witty,,,,alas, not so much?

Oh, and if you back up onto Madison Ave, while taking a selfie, don't blame the cab that hits you while taking an illegal right on red.

And if you walk into the intersection in front of Saint Pat's Cathedral, while texting, don't expect to be granted a high mass funeral there.

Inaka

I did not know that about texting and high mass. I heard that about selfies, not texting. Thanks for the update.

Anyone taking selfies should be run over anyway (especially if it's on a stick). I'll take this list with me in a couple of weeks, but will make sure to not stop walking to read it.

I'm not carping! This thread is a holiday tradition, in the spirit of the Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge and Heat Miser.