NYPD Still Ticketing Subway Riders for BS Reasons
In recent months, reports have surfaced that the NYPD has been going around issuing tickets to subway riders for everything from to placing a backpack on an empty seat of an empty train to having a sick pug on board. Many have cried foul over the city needlessly harassing otherwise law-abiding citizens during early morning commutes, but apparently they’re not stopping anytime soon.
Less than two months after The Post revealed the NYPD’s graveyard-shift ticket blitz, a 17-year-old Stuyvesant HS student was hit two weeks ago with a $50 fine for obstructing more than one chair — even though there were only four other people in the subway car and his feet were on the seat’s edge.
Irvin Khaytman, 17, was on his way home from a birthday party two weeks ago when he got written up. He was getting off the D train to transfer to the N at the 36th Street station in Brooklyn about 2 a.m. when he was abruptly stopped by a police officer on the platform.
“He said he saw my feet on the edge of the seat next to me,” Khaytman said. “He said putting your feet on a seat is nasty, and since I was nasty, I deserved a ticket.”
And yet somehow the guy I saw defecating into a show box on the Union Square subway platform last week got away without a ticket. Go figure.
Editor-in-Chief:
Well, at least the guy who defecated into a shoe box on the platform was practicing Leave No Trace, while the punk who had his dirty shoes on a subway seat, well, would his grammy let him do that to her coffee table? No! "Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" And then, ka-POW, because his nana is Amy Bishop.
I saw the same thing in a train at 4 am several weeks ago. Two cops stopped the train and pulled a girl off because her feet were on the seat. There were maybe 5 other passengers in the entire train – who were all with her and had to get out while the officers arrested and booked her. That's civil terrorism.