Out on the sunstruck open-air stage, Danza Libre, a valiant young dance group from Guantanamo, Cuba, leapt around in white tights eating fire most of Sunday morning while the rest of us read The Observer over organic croissants.
Women arrive in anoraks, wearing dirty trainers and fusty brown tights, eating greasy panini, holding their noses and complaining about the smell, and spend around an hour transforming themselves into beautiful, heavily made-up night peacocks, in floaty, gauzy, transparent dresses and leopardprint bras.
Can a city famous for its beefy pols, mobsters and steakhouse politicking handle a Sarah Lawrence College graduate who wore tights, eats organic, swims and does yoga, a lithe spirit who has more facility with Martha Graham's version of "Apollo" than the Bulls' place in their division?
On Wednesday, a group of boys threw a football, and a group of girls stood in a tight circle, eating chips.
To help meet their mortgage payments, they live on a tight budget, mainly eating pasta and rice.
From shopping on a tight budget to eating rice and beans out of Tupperware in the most random locations.
Another reason was the recent increases in ad spending by many makers of packaged foods as they sought to take advantage of the fact that budget-tight consumers were eating more often at home.
Eating smaller meals, chewing food thoroughly, eating more slowly, avoiding tight-fitting clothes, not smoking, and not lying down before about three hours after eating are among the factors that may improve the condition.
One of the easiest ways to save money when times are tight is to eat at home.
However, in cities like New York and San Francisco, there is a very real and valid concern that Airbnb is eating into an already tight housing supply.
