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Article: Enormous tag sale benefits N.Y. schools: 10,000 people attended Central Park event; offering 300,000 items, many from celebrities
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 19, 2004
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NEW YORK - Patty Seaman waited in line for three hours Saturday -
not exactly a novel experience for a New Yorker, except that she
wasn't going to a Yankee playoff game or a Broadway play.
She was going to a yard sale.
The yard was Central Park. People who cleaned out their closets
for the event included Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler and Regis
Philbin. The cash box take was destined for the city's public
schools.
Seaman was among more than 10,000 who converged on the park for
what was billed as the city's biggest-ever tag sale.
"We hear there's a good shoe section," joked Seaman, an archivist
from Long Island, as she and her sister, Cheryll, neared the front of
the line. Which was true ...