Eleven years ago, Charles Mysak snagged a primo parking spot on the corner of Columbus Avenue and 68th Street -- and he hasn't budged since.
The sidewalk bookseller keeps his inventory piled up in the beat up green '94 Civic, held partially together with duct tape, and feeds the meter $36 a day -- in quarters -- to hold on to the spot.
Traffic agents paper him with parking tickets for overstaying his welcome, and he's even been towed once or twice, but the defiant Mysak, 60, continues to hold on to the spot he first claimed during the Clinton administration.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/parking_squat_LwA3wlvBMZXHOeDYl7quUJ#ixzz1VV5nqnMz
It looks like all the books he sells are second-hand, which means no royalties to the authors. Still, you have to admire his tenacity.
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