A number of years ago, New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica wrote that former Mayor
Mike Bloomberg’s recommendation that most of Times Square should become a
pedestrian mall—with chairs to accommodate them—would create such an upsurge of
sunbathers that this “crossroads of the world” should be christened “Bloomberg
Beach.”
That sarcastic nickname hasn’t gone into the wide
circulation it deserves yet, but the crowds have in fact come out for a long
time now—a fact that I discovered yet again today. With ships docked for the
weekend, seamen were taking shore leave, joining hordes of tourists and city
residents who wanted to enjoy the warm weather before it turns muggy tomorrow.
I was eager to get home to New Jersey once my
midtown office close, but I just had to take this picture of this moment,
suspended between a rainy spring and what promises to be a sticky summer, when
so many tried to catch their breath while they still could.
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