it contagious. You live in Park Slope — you write a book.

Senator Chuck Schumer, a Park Slope resident, has just published "Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time"

Here’s something about Schumer’s new book from the New York Daily News:

"Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time" is a half-memoir, half-policy list that Schumer dubs "the 50% solution."

"This book is an attempt to answer the question, ‘What do Democrats stand for?’" Schumer said at a signing yesterday at Grand Central Terminal.

"I yearned for the Democrats and the government to start connecting with the middle class again," he said.

In the book, Schumer creates his version of a typical middle-class family. The family has an annual income of $75,000, two cars and three kids, and lives in Massapequa, L.I. The father, Joe, works in insurance.

"The Baileys are people I have talked to for 15 years," he said of his imaginary constituents. "They’re fictional, but I know them well."

The book opens with Schumer listening to election returns last November, then goes through his personal and political life, right down to his favorite Chinese restaurant in Washington.

His proposals run the gamut from reducing – all by half – property taxes, dependence on foreign energy sources and cancer deaths to increasing test scores.

"I hope the presidential candidates will rip [the ideas] off and use them," he said. "But I don’t think it will outsell either Hillary Clinton’s or Barack Obama’s book."