Siu and I sat on folding chairs beside a line of drying laundry and gazed out over the unfinished houses.

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"It's a woefully under-designed market, " said Mr. Graves, whose line of hospital tables and chairs was created in conjunction with the Stryker equipment company.

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All week long they've been coming with folding chairs and newspapers, getting ready to start waiting in line for lunch at 9:30 in the morning.

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But when it does, you can bet shoppers will line up for cheap versions of its oversize club chairs and candle trees.

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Rows of eyeglasses and sunglasses blanket the coffee table, piles of suspenders and ties fill chairs, a shoe store's worth of wingtips and loafers and boots line the wall.

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You hauled lawn chairs onto the abandoned elevated train tracks at Tenth Avenue and 29th Street (where the High Line now runs) and had makeshift parties in the gravelly grown-over grasses on the trestle bridge, bathed in the orange-black air of urban nighttime.

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And so it's hardly worth complaining that the cafe chairs make an awful screech when dragged on those concrete floors, and that there's still a line to the ladies room at intermission when the audiences of two of the three theaters come out to stretch.

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