04.16.2005:The Good Life in New York

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Here's to the Loafers Who Lunch

nytimes.com:

Here's to the Loafers Who Lunch Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times Robert Dimin, center, at Downtown Cipriani with two friends. ...Still, a fair portion of the city's employable population can be found, midweek, far from any office, whiling away the hours in restaurants and cafes. Unlike the corps of freelance writers with their laptops, these loiterers do not appear to be engaged in any income-producing work. Call them flâneurs, if you want to romanticize them with a French name. Some are princes of leisure, who clearly have never learned that a bank account may approach zero. Others are conscientious objectors to the rat race, who have decided that their personal freedom is worth more than the compromises that might gain you a flat-screen TV. ....