A $65 Table

Please read Andy Newman's story about a guy who bought a table and got a New York story: Funny how a piece of furniture can bring strangers together.

Beau Willimon and his girlfriend were looking for a table for their apartment in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

On the Web site Craigslist, they saw an elegant oval dining table with a rich mahogany finish: $65. Mr. Willimon called the number. The man at the other end, a Mr. Klein (he never volunteered a first name) would not deliver the table unless he had the money in hand. So Mr. Willimon and his girlfriend took the long train ride to Crown Heights. This was eight weeks ago, on a damp Tuesday night.