{"id":1422,"date":"2010-04-27T17:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2010-07-15T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:15:26","slug":"nyc_subway_etiquette_signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2010\/04\/nyc_subway_etiquette_signs\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Subway Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Jason Shelowitz, a NY graphic designer, created about 360 of these subway etiquette posters. Photo via leonem's flickr.\" rel=\"lightbox-subwayEtiquette\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/ny_subway_etiquette_posters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/ny_subway_etiquette_posters.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Jason Shelowitz, a NY graphic designer, created about 360 of these subway etiquette posters. Photo via leonem's flickr.\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The West Village artist behind these subway etiquette signs, Jason Shelowitz (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayshells.com\/\" target=\"_new\">jayshells <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>), is being embraced by the masses for his good deed\/public art project. He&#8217;s created around 400 of the posters, all calling out straphanger&#8217;s on their unsavory underground habits. So far only 50 are up, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/subway_slob_slap_jqLqDsY4ETz5PnAa4MwqjM?CMP=OTC-rss&#038;FEEDNAME=\" target=\"_new\">NY Post <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> notes that he used double-sided tape that won&#8217;t leave a mess once the sign is removed (he is the etiquette artist after all!).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><embed type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' salign='l' flashvars='&amp;titleAvailable=true&amp;playerAvailable=true&amp;searchAvailable=false&amp;shareFlag=N&amp;singleURL=http:\/\/wpix.vidcms.trb.com\/alfresco\/service\/edge\/content\/5356f059-d53e-4054-8b5a-c45645ad5cc0&amp;propName=wpix.com&amp;hostURL=http:\/\/www.wpix.com&amp;swfPath=http:\/\/wpix.vid.trb.com\/player\/&amp;omAccount=tribglobal&amp;omnitureServer=wpix.com' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' menu='true' name='PaperVideoTest' bgcolor='#ffffff' devicefont='false' wmode='transparent' scale='showall' loop='true' play='true' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' quality='high' src='http:\/\/wpix.vid.trb.com\/player\/PaperVideoTest.swf' align='middle' height='380' width='405'><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s a $25 fine for illegally placing posters in the subway system, so far he hasn&#8217;t had any problems\u2014and in the interview above he says he even witnessed some transit employees reading the signs and laughing. It&#8217;s really kind of shocking no one has done this before\u2014considering there are plenty of online outlets calling out commuters on their <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/01\/07\/subway_douchery_brings_up_undergrou.php\n\" target=\"_new\">bad habits <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>[ This story is from <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/04\/22\/subway_signs.php\" target=\"_new\">Gothamist <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> ]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Village artist behind these subway etiquette signs, Jason Shelowitz (aka jayshells ), is being embraced by the masses for his good deed\/public art project. He&#8217;s created around 400 of the posters, all calling out straphanger&#8217;s on their unsavory underground habits. So far only 50 are up, and the NY Post notes that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[776,77,775,105,335,308,17,401,104,7,774],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-city-subway","tag-gothamist","tag-greenwich-village","tag-jason-shelowitz","tag-mass-transit","tag-mass-transportation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc-subway","tag-public-transportation","tag-subway","tag-subway-etiquette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}