4Knots

In which we attended a free music festival on the historic South Street Seaport, we passed along crowd-surfers and were photographed in the process, and we endured the heat from both the sun and the fire that only temporarily shut down operations.

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My view

His view.  You can't see me because I'm, well, under his left leg.  Monica and Kyle are enjoying the proceedings to the left, while Nick (who felt the need to remove his green cap for the occasion) is anxiously trying to keep in touch with the excitement.
[Image: C.S. Muncy http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/4knots-a-moshing-crowd-surfers-eye-view-37306941/#3]

Putting out the vending machine fire.
[Image (with more photos and videos): http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/07/fire_at_the_sea.html]

Still working on it as we were leaving.

The Village Voice also supplied a hilariously-captioned report of the fire "told by an idiot":  http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/the-pier-17-fire-as-told-by-a-drunk-4knots-attendee-37306992/