Homeless man sleeping on grate by a massive "infrastructure expansion" that makes Houston Street look like a bomb exploded there and it has been there for a very long time.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6436241
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=69978&search_result=1&stid=8
I am in this video from NY1 in front of a medium sized water main break in the East Village.
