Here is our second story from the Lower East Side tenement museum. Marine Olivesi was listening in.

NARR: In the second half of the show, a well dressed mid-age man named John Steinmetz stands up in front of the crowd.

STEINMETZ: At the exception of living in your co-op on the Upper East Side, you can live in New York absolutely free. You can do this in very few other cities. It is New York State law that a restaurant cannot carry food over to the next day. They have to throw it out when closing time comes. So you can eat at the best restaurant in New York... Just wait until they close and very courteously, ask if you could have the chateaubriand with a very delicate wine sauce. No problem. If you want to eat Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Indian, whatever is your desire, just go there at closing time.

NARR: By the time Steinmetz gets to the punch line, the room has filled with curious passers-by. There’s no chairs left, so many people are sitting on the floor or standing, riveted by this king of the luftmenshes.

Marine Olivesi, Columbia Radio News