It has been a year since this photograph in my photojournal book was taken. Holiday shoppers seem to have increased, so as the homeless and unlicensed street vendors.
Trying to get by
"Half of New Yorkers say they are barely or not getting by, poll shows." We don't need polls to tell us. Just take a walk in the City, you will see scenes like this image in my book every other corner. Somehow, our policymakers fail to see the obvious. They also fail to see the correlation between inequality and civil unrest in recent history.
Homelessness
Figures show that homelessness has been up THREE times in five years in one of the Manhattan residential neighborhoods.