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Video: Pedestrians Turn Busy Intersection Into Dance Floor
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Jen Carlson
Published Sep 8, 2015
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Photo by Arin Sang-urai/Improv Everywhere
For their latest prank, Improv Everywhere sent pedestrians into the middle a busy intersection outside of Penn Station... in the name of dance.
"This project took place on the crosswalk in front of Penn Station on 7th Avenue, one of the busiest spots in the city," they note in their recap. "We staged the mission several times, with the performance repeating at each change of the light and always finishing before the “Don’t Walk” countdown clock reached zero."
Presumably no one got hurt during this bold ballroom dance session—check it out below.
But the real challenge would have been to move this INSIDE of Penn Station, on say, a Friday at 5 p.m.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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