There are a lot of people in New York

This is a Sunday afternoon, looking north along University Place from 10th Street. University Place was closed off between Washington Square and Union Square for this. Along the street were all sorts of tents selling the usual sort of assortments of jewelry, t-shirts, hand-crafted whatnots and food vendors. I got the impression that most of the people, like us at this point, had just wandered out of their apartments in the neighbourhood and decided to take a look. There are 8 million people in New York City, 1.5 million on the island of Manhattan alone.