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There was a show on the Discovery Channel (or maybe it was The Learning Channel) explaining how David Blane did a lot of his illusions.
I can't remember most of it, but the levitating in the middle of the street was done by doing it at a certain angle so that he raises one foot off the ground and it obscures the view of the other foot, then he raises the "back" of his other foot and standing with just the support of his toes on that foot. (it was kind of dark out as well)
Then they showed him go beyond the ince or two he initially accomplished. How did he do that ? He cheated. He used something to boost him up really high (like a meter or something).Then he got the crowd in on it this time so they would seem amazed by him going so much higher.

Not sure how well I explained that, but I'm sure the answers could probably be found on google if you were persistent enough.