Since 1979 Christo has been trying to get permission for a big project in New York’s Central Park. Now the city has approved it. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says “the project would attract some 500,000 visitors and generate $72 million to $136 million in spending. ‘When our natural instincts are to retreat to the comfortable and the familiar, we have to reassert the daring and the creative spirit that differentiates New York from any other city in the world’.”