| The Big Apple uses tarps as easy to raise canopies | | | | stops, and tarps have become de rigueur in |
| for shaded carnival tents in various neighborhoods as | | | | construction sites, to protect workers and the |
| well as Central Park, where they're frequently used | | | | expensive equipment, not to mention the wood piles |
| as commercial party tents and even used as | | | | needed in various construction sites that require |
| temporary galleries for art shows. They are used for | | | | lumber tarps. |
| residential party tents too, for birthdays or wedding | | | | All manner of truckers use tarps in New York to |
| parties. Tarps have also been seen used strictly for | | | | cover their goods, or to cover fruit being delivered |
| shade or to protect those inside from inclement | | | | to the many markets in the area. In schools all over |
| weather. Parking in New York is often a problem and | | | | New York, they use tarps to cover and protect the |
| tends to be expensive, thus tarps are used as | | | | beautiful hardwood floors in countless gyms. Moving |
| portable garages and even for carports. They also | | | | out to the baseball field, you will see tarps used for |
| make great car covers! | | | | athletic field covers, baseball tarps as well as infield |
| The ever-present fruit stands in New York use | | | | covers. The various truckers who pick up leaves and |
| waterproof tarps in order to protect their fruit when | | | | small branches from yards everywhere use tarps as |
| stormy or rainy weather strikes, the vendors raising | | | | leaf covers. |
| them in seconds. Today there are even clear tarps | | | | In winter, tarps are frequently used as a snow fence |
| available that enable those sellers to permit their | | | | in New York, and many is the ice rink that utilizes |
| customers to view the produce even though it's | | | | tarps as liners. Painters throughout the city use tarps |
| covered with a tarp. | | | | to protect furnishings and floors from paint spatters. |
| In the residential areas of New York you will see | | | | In summertime it's rare to not see a backyard pool |
| them used as boat covers, as well as children's play | | | | covered with a tarp to retain heat and protect the |
| tents. In the Spanish neighborhoods you see them | | | | pool from leaves and assorted debris. People in New |
| used for fiestas as well as the wonderful quinceanera | | | | York seem to endlessly be moving different articles |
| celebrations. Many are the Jewish men who have | | | | and often one sees a family van whose carpeting is |
| celebrated reaching manhood in Bar Mitzvah parties | | | | protected by a tarp acting as a cargo liner as they |
| held under tarps. | | | | move various articles. |
| Tarps even keep New York dogs happy as can be. | | | | Did you know that tarps are used to create the |
| Many people use them as kennels so that their dogs | | | | Wollman Ice Skating Rink Center in Central Park? As |
| are protected from the searing sun, falling rain or | | | | exciting as New York is, much of New York would |
| snow. New York has always been known as a | | | | not even exist without the use of the ubiquitous tarp |
| construction city, where it seems construction never | | | | use found all over the Big Apple. |