“Look at this schmuck, he’s holding up the whole line of cars,” Joel Herskowitz said, standing on the corner of 56th Street, two blocks from his new office at 600 Madison Avenue.

The light had gone to green, but the driver at the front hadn’t yet noticed. It wouldn’t be long: horns started blaring immediately! But Mr. Herskowitz, barely breaking stride, hurried across the street. Read More