Sidewalk this way

July 16, 2002

Without this Times articles, I never would have known that New York sidewalks are crowded and that people alwaystend to get in my way. Think You Own the Sidewalk?

"People no longer know how to walk on the sidewalk," said John Kalish, a television producer in Manhattan. "There was a time that any real New Yorker had a built-in sonar in terms of walking down the sidewalk, even a crowded one, and never bumping into someone. Now Ñ forget it."