Look! Genuine homeless people in cashmere!

In a city where the homeless have it worse than ever, it feels churlish to knock a charitable organization like City Harvest for its new ad campaign, but there’s just no getting around it: NY celebs like Conan O’Brien, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins are depicted along movie stars like Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford in what appears to be “genuine” homeless-people locales (or would that be “locations?”) flashing cardboard signs saying “will work for food.”

It’s obviously a “think” campaign, a “there but for the Grace of God go I”-type thing.

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