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Today's Urban Design Observation: The Improvised Street Lounge Grows in Popularity

...and has added either a bar or a bathroom

By Rain Noe - November 17, 2017

in Urbanism

The makeshift sidewalk lounge I wrote about earlier, sited on Baxter Street, is apparently experiencing growth in its numbers of patrons.

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The unseen people who populate this lounge--I've yet to catch them in the act, as I only pass this way in the morning--have amassed more furniture, including two rolling office chairs, two waiting-room chairs, a barstool and an endtable/cabinet.

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They also apparently like fine French brandy.

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However, this being New York, it's also possible that the bottle contains urine. A subset of homeless people in the city prefer to urinate in bottles and leave them lying about, they're a relatively common sight downtown. And once in a while, if you're "lucky," you'll see one of them in the act.

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Porter Gieske

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the blue crate is a bread crate- for transporting bakes goods from step delivery van to bodegas

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  Wait, but that's the one on the other side of the fence right? How about the one that looks like a regular milk crate but seems 50% taller? Not that it really matters.
  
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What kind of milk crate is that blue one? Is it like a tall soda bottle crate?

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