People walk like goobers even if they don't have their phones out.. at least NYC is a lot better than a place like SF.

I swear people here have no concept of what terrible walkers they are.. taking up the whole sidewalk, that _single_ guy walking up the left side when everyone else is coming the opposite way on the right, making all of them get out of the way, the people who just stop walking, turn around, and run into you.

It drives me insane the same way that tourists stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to look at a map does, or when people walk 4-people wide, stand on the left of an escalator, queue up for a bus by blocking the sidewalk, or holding everyone up to 'just take a quick photo.'

It's really annoying, but I don't think you can just ad-hoc legislate it. We have tons of things that were made illegal in NYC and a tiny amount of the laws actually get enforced. As others have said, this can lead to laws only being enforced on people the police already want to harass, and everyone else doing it on a regular basis.

In addition, with our Vision Zero goals, there are so many other things to focus enforcement and government bandwidth on. Hundreds of people are still being killed by reckless drivers every year. If we can solve that, then we can focus on getting people to be less annoying when walking around.

In my mind I have a secret blog called "Choke-point Assholes." Every time someone stops at the top of an escalator to double-check their gate information, or in front of an elevator immediately after getting out, or [rage-inducing list truncated], I snap a mental picture and post it to my secret blog.

wow, or maybe people should not be expected to be always rushing in life? If you are busy to get to a workplace that do not allow coming late, tough on you, leave earlier. I'll keep enjoying life (and be a "tourist", even where I live) at my own pace, and stop to take a picture if I feel like it, thank you

You can walk slow and not be in peoples way. Walk to the side not the middle of the damn footpath for instance. If there's two (or more) of you walk single file OR pay attention and move to single file when someone wants to walk faster. Have some awareness and not stop suddenly when someone is right behind you. Just have some awareness in general.

The problem with stopping to take a picture is that thousands of people are walking on the sidewalks of these avenues, and people want to take a photo across the sidewalk (camera person by the street, subject by whatever shop/thing they want to pose with) and thus they try to stop everyone coming into frame. There are thousands of people trying to get places in this city, and it's not about leaving early/getting late -- people just have places to go and don't want to get stopped repeatedly.

The scale of it is like stopping on the freeway to take a photo of a billboard. It holds everyone up because you put yourself above the people around you. It's rude.

My major new annoyance is people walking slowly up the stairs from the subway while reading their phone. It’s NYC and there are dozens of people behind you, wait until you get outside.

Wait until you get old ; people waiting behind will resent you too. The thing is you should be able to walk at any pace you like or can. Others waiting behind should get a less stressful life.

I'll walk at any pace I find appropriate for the day, Thank you very much. Usually slower than most if it's sunny because I'll want to enjoy my walk outside. Tough that you need to be rushing, leave earlier or get a job/friends that allow being late. Are you the kind of guy who also resent older people for being slow?