Saturday's Snapshots

Things are getting interesting. This afternoon I got out of the subway at 23^rd Street and 5^th Avenue around 1:30. I was on my way to Home Depot to pick up some batteries for the smoke alarms. This probably has nothing to do with what happened next, but I just thought I'd mention it.

Anyway, at the conner there were a few cops and some NYPD verticals. Nothing unusual given the week, but they were there for a demonstration, and the demonstration was just arriving. Now this part of Manhattan is pretty flat, so standing at the corner, I could see a bunch of folks with signs and a few more cops heading uptown, but what I could not see was much of the Avenue behind them. But for the next 40 or so minutes, I saw a solid line, block after block walk past. Now I am talking full blocks here: the police wisely did not try to stop the march for crosstown traffic, so it was a continuous stream of people filling every block.

I walked down Fifth Avenue and they were still coming. Across 17^th Street to Union Square – where the march began – and they were still coming out of the park. We are talking a lot of people.  Maybe 50,000? Probably more.  

Am I repeating myself? Really, a lot of people.

If the goal of the march was Trump's NYC place on 56^th Street and Fifth Avenue, then the front of the line was passing it while folks were still lining up in Union Square.  Maybe more like 75,000 people.

Like I said, things are getting interesting.  And for the first time since Tuesday night, I am feeling that there just might be a chance.

Ps: Saturday's evening news reported “nearly 25,000 demonstrators” marching up Fifth Avenue. Really? Average mile in NYC is 20 blocks and the march hit Fifth Avenue at 17^th Street and went at least as far as 55^th Street (that's a block from Trump's Tower-of-Power). So about 2 miles. Figure (conservatively) 1500 folks on each block at any point. For at least 3 hours, they filled ever block and were all moving. We are talking a lot more than 25,000. Just thought I'd add this.

Another network reported a "demonstration with 2 arrests" at Trumpie's Tower.  

There ya go!