Total solar what? Not all New Yorkers were interested in, or even aware of, the astronomical phenomenon that had so many people looking to the sky on Monday. NY1's Jose Martinez has more.

The Hare Krishas kept chanting.... the backgammon games never stopped....

...as even the chance to check out a rare solar eclipse found a sizable amount of disinterest in Union Square.

"Honestly, I really don't care to look up in the sky just to see the moon and the sun align together," said one. "We see the moon and the sun every day, you know?"

Well, not quite like this — as the moon cloaked 71 percent of the sun in New York — and fully covered it across a swath of America from coast to coast.

Some could not understand not being excited by it all.

"What's not to get?" asked one woman excited about the eclipse. "I mean, it's an amazing celestial event that you only get to see maybe a couple times in your lifetime if you're lucky."

But many New Yorkers like Fidel Rivera just didn't have the time to tilt their heads skyward.

"I'm not really thinking too much about that due to the fact that I got a big plumbing job coming up and right now I'm getting my material for that and that's all I'm worried about right now," Rivera said.

"I just had cataract surgery in both eyes," said another man. "So my eyes is perfect at this point. And that little bit of sun is not going to change anything at all."

Then there were those who just hadn't heard the news. Even at Adorama, a W.18th St. store that sold out of close to 20,000 protective glasses, not everyone was clued in.

"Well, we do have people coming in though don't necessarily know about the eclipse or shocked that people are waiting on line to get the glasses," said store director Keith Guralchuk.

Including plenty who thought the draw was something other than what was in the sky.

"You know Union Square  is a big protest area," said one. "So I was believing  that there was some kind of movement like that going on. And I got closer and I realized everyone was just fascinated with the eclipse. And I was just like, 'Wow, what's the big deal?'"

And for those who couldn't be bothered with this year's total solar eclipse, they'll have another chance to catch one, but not until April 8th, 2024.