You get creative living here...

Yes friends, that is a chair strapped to her back. Quite the good idea, really. She was probably off to stand in line for Shakespeare in the Park. The tickets for that are free, so people line up at 6am the day of. This year, Meryl Streep is going to be performing, so people are lining up three days ahead of time. I'm highly tempted to unleash the power of NYC and Craigslist: to hire a college student to sit in the line and get me some tickets. Why not?

Incidentally, the woman in the green shirt in the background is a good specimen of what the majority of women in New York seem to look like. Skinny!