Soon after moving to Canal Street, to the area now known as Dimes Square, I would hear a man in the night shouting, "Hup! ... hup!... hup!" There would be a few seconds between each eruption and would continue for hours. Sometimes it sounded as though the man walked west, maybe as far as the mouth of the Manhattan Bridge, but usually he stayed around the intersection of Eldridge and Canal.
The Hupping Man
Soon after moving to Canal Street, to the area now known as Dimes Square, I would hear a man in the night shouting, "Hup! ... hup!... hup!" There would be a few seconds between each eruption and would continue for hours. Sometimes it sounded as though the man walked west, maybe as far as the mouth of the Manhattan Bridge, but usually he stayed around the intersection of Eldridge and Canal.