Frankly, we can see why many New Yorkers, men or women, might want to diet simply to fit into subway seats.

We tried in vain to get a glimpse of the imagined scene - snarling dog, conductor standing on a subway seat.

She remembered signs saying you should give up your subway seat to "blesses de guerre."

I watched some very alert sailors offer their subway seats to two women.

Then we'll see bloated city people trying to squeeze into those subway seats that were designed with the Japanese bottom in mind.

The tourist proceeded to force his son to squeeze his way into an elderly woman's subway seat.

I love to find the day's paper on the subway seat next to me when I am caught without anything to read.

The most recent proposed addition to the rules list seems reasonable: don't prop your feet on subway seats.

The code prohibited many things, from panhandling to littering or lying down on subway seats.

While the umbrella attack was clearly a crime, something like leaving a wet umbrella on a subway seat is a more ambiguous case.