Before the Morning Rush Hour

Photo by Eric Francis / Planet Waves
Photo by Eric Francis / Planet Waves

Yes Men Ben and Ben work the side entrance to Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan’s East Side as morning commuters begin to trickle into the city. They offered passers-by “free copies of the New York Post” without mentioning that it was a fake. More than 2,000 people volunteered to distribute the newspapers in an elaborately organized online and on the ground operation. If an area was short on volunteers, Jacques would send out a “textcast” and they would mysteriously appear in the stated location.

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