New York City

Went for a walk to have a look at the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market after breakfast. Continued to Broadway and came across the Broadway Flea Market and Auction. There were rows of tables from arts/theatre/actor-affiliated organisations selling show memorabilia and baked goods. Tyne Daly was serving behind one of the tables.
People's Climate March
Decided to head to 6th Ave/42nd St to wait for the marchers. Got there about 12.10 and the first marchers came by about 12.40 after leaving Central Park at 11.30. There were musicians, floats and thousands and thousands and thousands of marchers across the spectrum of ages, professions and ethnicities. One of the most stunning groups was the Indians from Ecuador. They were dancing wearing feathered headdresses and playing traditional instruments and they stopped right in front of us, but on the other side. There were school students, nurses, people in wheelchairs, mothers with children in prams as well as many, many other groups and individuals. There were some great banners and placards but my favourite was "There is no Planet B". At one stage an Officer came and asked us to move our backpack, which we had put on the ground at our feet. She asked us to put it between our legs in case someone saw it and thought it was a bomb!! We spent quite a while talking to a Police Officer on duty near us and he said there were about 1000 officers on duty today. He estimated more than 250,000 marchers and said it was definitely the biggest march he had seen in the city. There were Police of all rank on duty near us ( we were at the turning point into 42nd St), including on motorcycles and with sniffer dogs, as well as Secret Service men. On seeing the news it appears that Al Gore and Ban Ki Moon were also there. We watched for two hours and decided to go and have lunch. When we walked back to the hotel about 5 o'clock there were still marchers coming down 42nd St!! On the way past one of the theatres we saw about five black cars with darkened windows with signs saying Ghana in the front window - UN delegations are clearly in town. Decided to go back to the hotel, start to pack and go to bed earlier tonight.もっと詳しく