[Crawford]

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The Manhattan bean is on a major Manhattan avenue, in the middle of Tribeca, at the base of a giant luxury tower, across from a law school and subway station, in an area with lots of day and night pedestrian traffic. And obviously it will draw many additional visitors.

Anyways, if someone wants to tag a sculpture, so what? It can be cleaned. And what does that have to do with pedestrian traffic? Times Square has more pedestrian traffic than anywhere in the developed world, and has graffiti.