"Pretty soon there was an agent stationed at every aisle in every section of the store."
Michael: Jodie, how's my schedule look for today? Jodie: You've got a conference and dinner party at the Japanese Embassy regarding wildlife protection. Michael: Oh, yeah...sorry, but I'll have to cancel that. I'm heading out to save America!
From the website, it looks like this group has been active in NYC for a few years already, and had some press coverage, for example in the New York Times and on Fox 5. Then consider the size of NYC... doesn't seam quite as improbable if you consider these facts I think.
if they did, there's be A LOT more participants Just look at the size of the place (says the bloke from a 17k town who has never seen anything larger than London and never taken in properly anything larger than Munich (and not even that (uh multiple brackets )))