In most places, sidewalks are just sidewalks for people to walk on to get from one place to another. In New York sidewalks are places of great industry and compressed energy, they are littered with vendors and carts selling every imaginable kind of food, this man has rigged up plastic sheets to keep the wind – which blows hard from North to South – out and to keep his Shish Kebab warm. The menu on the side is an art form unto itself, I love the energy and industry of New York, it is a teeming place.
26
February
Shish Kebab: New York City
by Jon Katz