‘I can show them the heavens’: meet New York’s street astronomer

Joe Delfausse, 82, drew a crowd in the middle of a Brooklyn street by sharing his telescope

Joe Delfausse didn't intend to stop traffic on a recent Tuesday night in Brooklyn, but Saturn had other plans.

The amateur astronomer, who has been a fixture in his Park Slope neighborhood for more than 20 years, regularly lugs out a telescope on clear nights and encourages passersby to take a look at the cosmos.