No matter how deserted your subway train may be, you can't still afford to get comfortable by putting your feet up: It seems that transit police have not eased up on their late night ticket blitz against any rider occupying more than one seat. Last year saw a 17% spike in tickets for that crime, and it looks like the trend continues in 2010. One of the more recent violators is a 17-year-old Stuyvesant HS student who got a $50 ticket two weeks ago on his way home from a birthday party. It was 2 a.m., and there were four people other in the subway car when he dared rest his feet on the edge of an empty seat.
The student, Irvin Khaytman, says he was getting off the D train to transfer to the N at the 36th Street station in Brooklyn when he was stopped by a diligent police officer. "He said he saw my feet on the edge of the seat next to me," Khaytman tells the Post. "He said putting your feet on a seat is nasty, and since I was nasty, I deserved a ticket." Well, if they're going to crack down on nastiness, maybe the NYPD can at least round up people who clip their fingernails in the subway, too?
