Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harper’s Magazine, organized the first flash mob in Manhattan in May 2003 and the first successful flash mob assembled on June 3, 2003 (after the initial attempt at a flash mob was foiled) at Macy’s department store. More than one hundred people converged upon the ninth floor rug department of Macy’s department store, gathering around one particular very expensive rug. Following this flash mob, about 200 people flooded the lobby and mezzanine of the Hyatt hotel in synchronized applause for about fifteen seconds, and next participants pretending to be tourists on a bus trip invaded a shoe boutique in Soho. A later mob saw hundreds of people perched on a stone ledge in Central Park making bird noises.