In 2005 55 homeless people lived in Times Square, last summer there were five, and today there's just one lone holdout. His name is Heavy, and clad in a red knit cap he can be found drinking coffee, stationed beside a black and red suitcase. For years he's fielded daily offers of housing, but he won't budge, reports the Times. Heavy isn't aggressive and doesn't panhandle much. “He is a sweetheart,” said an 82-year-old woman who's lived in the area for 44 years. Still, representatives of street outreach nonprofits hope he'll someday surrender his Times Square quarters. “I just have this dream that all of a sudden something will snap, and he’ll say, I’d love to have housing,” said one.
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