Unlike most illusionists, he performs without the traditional signifiers of magic: no tuxedo, no girls in spangles, in fact, no stage unless you count the street.
Ruskin was both an ecstatic prose poet and a scientific sky-watcher: in the winter of 1859-60 he counted the "streets" of high cirrus clouds, "not just seven or eight but 150 distinct streets.
The murkiness — city officials can make claims that do not seem to match reality on the streets — partly results from the fact that the Sanitation Department starts counting the streets it has plowed from the start of a storm, meaning a street could be freed of some or most of its snow only to be covered again later.
We counted the streets, we counted bodies in some area, and then you made a calculation.
One has only to count the number of streets in America named for the French General Lafayette who fought alongside George Washington in the Revolutionary War to understand how appreciative the Americans once were of the French.
The point is, none of these meetings took place in Anthony's office, because Anthony doesn't have an office (unless you count the Starbucks down the street).
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Nor does it count the taco truck on 96th Street and Broadway and the Dominican and Mexican street vendors selling tamales, mangoes, sweet bean soup and sugar cane juice in Washington Heights.
There's still confusion when you arrive today, as you count the door-numbers in Wardour Street, but finally you see the "100" sign high up on the wall.
By August 3rd, 1670, 447 wooden struts were counted in the streets of Hall (Seeböck 1882, 321).
