Mr. McErlean said the Meadowlands might have a weekday crowd of 5,000 or 6,000, but when the Hambletonian, a $1 million race, is run in August, 30,000 people flock to the track.

Normally serving just a weekday crowd, he opened on weekends to accommodate the museumgoers who were famished from a day of looking at off-centered noses and dancing cutouts.

The organization also sets up operations on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights and on Seventh Avenue at First Street in Park Slope, but Mr. Salamone says Court Street attracts the biggest weekday crowd, especially on Tuesdays, when a greenmarket operates on the nearby plaza.

Now that British children are out of school, weekday crowds at the park are certain to swell.

Although it has held as many as 11,000 fans, Finger Lakes ekes by in the era of off-track betting with weekday crowds of a thousand or so, many of them retirees who watch the races on television sets in the smoky betting areas under the grandstand.

Before a sparse weekday crowd, former Monarch Rube Currie relieved Red Ryan with one out in the third and the Monarchs leading 3-0, and shut them out the rest of the game.

The restaurant is good for impressing clients; the bar mixes a weekday crowd of suits with the occasional celebrity party.

Randy Credico, a political humorist, lounged several seats away, discussing the virtues of the weekday crowds of conventioneers and tourists over what he called the "bridge and tunnel" suburban audiences that take to the clubs on weekends.

Livanos was full on weekends, but did not draw weekday crowds, Mr. Livanos said.