When the ball drops in Times Square on Saturday evening, New Year’s Eve, you will see lots of people. Pause to consider the organization that takes place behind the scene before the event. On Tuesday on some sidewalks, the crowd-control-cement-blocks, the size of ponies, were already in place. There are many tourists here for the holidays but now the crowded streets around the Avenues of 5th and 6th and 34th to 49th have more impediments. Along the Avenues the wooden and or metal barricades stand clustered in groups at the corners, waiting to be put up to corral the crowd. There will be no live report from me on this event. As I walked by today, I saw the ball at the top of the building; that’s good enough! Being one soul in a throng that only moves because everyone moves is not in anyway something of which I wish to partake. I experienced this again at Rockefeller Center and that was small scale and of short duration. I can imagine but do not want to experience group press on a cold evening with everyone keeping warm by imbibing and well, you easily get the picture. Watch it on TV. A smart alternative.
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Now I have the answer to my question: Was Maxe in the crowd at Times Square. Loved your description.