Times Square - A Green Zone!

Can't quite believe what I am seeing - Times Square of New York, full of people all over the street, but unlike what I remember it with them permanently hurrying to get somewhere, day or night, are now all lounging about, apparently with nothing to do at all except enjoying their leisure. In the middle of the street!! They are there reading, listening to music or people watching. This photo below was taken right after the authorities closed up this, the busiest area in the world, to all traffic to the Broadway Avenue, between the streets 42nd and 47th. This measure has raised huge polemics between the supporter of the area open to traffic, and the ones who enjoy this new Green Zone right in the middle of the city. But I have not followed up quite unusual & interesting news and now wonder whether it's still being so. What I want to know is: where did all those lounging chairs come from? Green Zones there are, but providing loungers as well? Free? Or hired out by the hour/day? Who put them out for the day and who clears them away at night? Is this measure for short term only, or is it to be like that always as from now? On English beaches, such chairs are hired out, or people have to bring their own. Nothing is free. Whereas in Roses, Spain, whenever there is a procession or a parade when the public would be all out to watch the spectacles, there would be deck chairs put out by the Town Hall, neatly lining both sides of the street, and these are all free for whoever wishes to use them. When the festivities is over, they would disappear as if by magic within practically minutes. Tag:Timessquare

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