A tent city has popped up along tony Fifth Avenue near Central Park — full of teens who have been lining up since Wednesday to see the Korean boy band BTS.
The band is set to appear in the park for a free concert this coming Wednesday, so the mega-fans were camping out to be at the head of the line for the first-come, first-served event.
About two dozen mostly teenage fans huddled under tarps while in line in the rain Sunday.
“We had our tents set up last night, and we put our shoes beneath the tent because we thought they were going to stay dry. That turned out not to be the case,” said soggy NYU freshman Nicole Lyons, 18, as she stood barefoot on one tarp. “This is the only pretty bad day so far.”
Some fans have been taking shifts for the past five days.
“If you really want something, nothing gets in the way of you having it,” said Milka Galarza, 18, a Berkeley College sophomore who has seen BTS roughly 80 times since 2013.