TAKE MY SEAT, PLEASE! POLITE IN THE SUBWAY

“Etiquette Enforcement,” Ellis Henican Blog, “The Huffington Post,” June 24, 2009

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has officially decided we’re not polite enough.

They should know, right?

These are the people who have done so much to coarsen the local language with expressions like “The train will be moving shortly” (yeah, right!) and “I have no idea how to get to South Street Seaport. What do I look like? The Big Apple Greeters?”

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ELLIS HENICAN is a New York Times bestselling author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and a popular TV news pundit. He is also the voice of Stormy on the hit Cartoon Network series Sealab 2021. Ellis is a born storyteller. His How to Catch a Russian Spy, written with American double-agent Naveed Jamali (Scribner), was called “the funniest book I read” by Washington Post critic Carlos Lozada and is being made into a feature film by director Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider Man) for Twentieth Century Fox.

Ellis wrote the ground-breaking Vigilance with longtime New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly (Hachette Books) and Worth Dying For with Navy SEAL commander Rorke Denver (Howard Books), a follow-up to their special-ops bestseller Damn Few (Hyperion). Making It in America, with furniture titan John Bassett III (Center Street), tells how U.S. companies in the Trump era can survive foreign competition and keep American jobs at home. ,Read More

TAKE MY SEAT, PLEASE! POLITE IN THE SUBWAY

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