June 13, 2005
Urban camping in Times Square
 No it's not a desperate attempt to skirt the city's high-priced hotel rooms, just a clever group of New Yorkers who spent a night urban camping in Times Square.
Folks from all over the world stopped and talked to us to find out what we were doing. Some bought us supplies (we'd made a pact not to leave our traffic island until morning) and two even brought pizza. Many hung out for a while and left us their names and addresses. ... We spun stories about being there to be first in line for Jessica Simpson tickets (one group almost joined us) or claimed to be photographers for North Face taking product photos in the urban landscape (the cops seemed to buy that one.) But people just seemed to love the idea that someone was actually camping out in the middle of times square for the heck of it. Although 10 cops stopped by during the night, the campers weren't actually asked to leave until sunrise.
(Link found via Kottke.org.)
June 13, 2005 05:11 PM in Midtown
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