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How Popular Is Your Favorite Subway Seat? Let's Settle It

By Nigel Chiwaya | March 1, 2016 3:14pm

NEW YORK CITY — What's your favorite spot on the subway?

Whether you're a door-seater or an end-of-car-stander, odds are you've got a preferred spot on the subway. It's the place you'll dart to on an empty car and the spot that you're aiming to reach when you position yourself on the platform.

We want to know what that spot is, so click the link to our interactive and let us know where you go when faced with empty, partially full and packed trains. Then, when you're done, we'll show you what other riders on your train line said.

And just like we did when we asked for your versions of neighborhood outlines, we'll come back in a few weeks with the full results of this project.

INTERACTIVE: Where do you stand or sit on the train? Compare yourself with other subway riders

If your favorite spot is "whatever's closest to the door," you're not alone. A 2013 Transit Research Board study on subway seating preferences found that riders on uncrowded trains "overwhelmingly" preferred to both stand and sit near the doors.

"New York City customers had a clear preference for seats adjacent to doors, no real preference for seats adjacent to stanchions and disdain for bench spots between two other seats. Standing customers strongly preferred to crowd the space between doors and to hold onto vertical poles," the report reads.

Of course, your seating and standing preference may change if the MTA approves its "open gangway" style cars. The trains, which the MTA is aiming to use on the A and R lines, would replace individual subway cars with one long open car, allowing riders to freely move about the length of the train.

But don't think that your seating choices played a role in the design of the new seats. MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said that while the agency has seen anecdotally that riders prefer to cluster near doors, the next generation of subway cars will be built to maximize ridership numbers.

"The decision to only procure cars with bench seating moving forward was focused solely on increasing capacity in cars," Ortiz said.