He has been trying to pitch his tent all over the New York area. But he has been turned down in Central Park, Englewood, N.J., and most recently, by the Westchester County town of Bedford, where tenants from the United Arab Emirates renting Donald Trump’s 213-acre estate were given a stop-work order after they began assembling a tent that would be used by the Libyan leader.
On Wednesday, there was some confusion over whether Colonel Qaddafi was actually headed to Bedford; the drama ended with Mr. Trump taking credit for keeping Mr. Qaddafi away.
So the Libyan leader is homeless in a way, a vagabond, and were it not for luxury suites in Manhattan hotels — or perhaps his envoy’s residence — while he is in town for the United Nations General Assembly, he would be condemned, like the Bible’s Cain, to roam the New York area as a “restless wanderer on the earth.”
Still, it seemed appropriate to ask the keepers of some New York City landmarks, particularly those that have…