Meet the man making benches for Indy residents

For $40, Anderson York will build you a bench and leave it at a location of your choosing.

Over the past six weeks, more than a dozen of York’s benches, which are made of treated pine wood and arrive unpainted, have been popping up across the city — at bus stops, public parks and school playgrounds.

And while it’s technically illegal to place a bench in a public space without a permit, Indy’s so-called “bench mench” (as it’s spelled on his Instagram account) isn’t worried about the consequences…

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