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New York Shitty Day Ender: Don’t Feed The Birds
This lovely image hails from Brighton Beach and was taken by Adam Kopysc.
From The New York Shitty Photo Pool, Part III: Mascot
Filed under: 10003, 10012, East Village, East Village Manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, Street Art
Taken by Jilly Ballistic.
From The New York Shitty Photo Pool, Part III: Luis
Chris Arnade (who took the above photograph) writes:
Luis, a day laborer from Mexico and heroin addict, has been living with Jamie and some others for the last month. I found them soon after the sanitation department had come and taken away all of their possessions: Winter blankets, carts, clothes, everything. They spent the cold, wet day collecting new beddings.
Luis and the rest were in good spirits. He insisted on having his picture taken with the Santa hat. I asked him if he was okay with me posting his picture, and he said “Yes, who knows, maybe my family in Mexico will see it.”
You can view Chris’s set, “Faces of Addiction”, by clicking here.
From The New York Shitty Photo Pool, Part II: Nicky, Vanessa & Alice
Chris Arnade (who took the above photograph) writes:
Nicky, from Baltimore, is now homeless and a heroin addict. She was standing on the same busy street corner as her two friends Vanessa and Mary Alice, waiting for the guys buying liquor on the way home from work.
Prostitution gets the attention, but most of these women are driven by their addiction. I have found almost every one of the heroin addicts to be thoughtful, empathetic, and too trusting, holding huge emotional pain they are looking to numb.
Nicky, when asked how she wanted to be described said, “don’t judge me till you get to know me! That holds for all of us girls out here.”
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