In Union Square, How to build a Holiday Market

LATE in the evening on a mid-November Wednesday, when Union Square was dark and quiet, a mild-mannered, blue-eyed man named Eldon Scott stood near the bronze statue of George Washington with a surveyor’s wheel in his hand and counted out six paces. Fishing a nub of yellow chalk from the pocket of his green zippered fleece, he stooped down to make a T-shaped mark on the paving stone.
Moving through the park, Mr. Scott mapped out where the edges of booths would sit for the Union Square Holiday Market, which opened the Saturday before Thanksgiving and runs until Christmas Eve.