New Yorkers at Work
Big Apple Grocery Store.
Street level access to store basement.
Italian Ice vendor outside Barney’s, the luxury retail store. Barney’s started as meager discount clothing store in 1932 and went out of business as an elite clothing store in 2019.
Hardware store… unknown location.
Hardware store… unknown location
Hot Dog street vendor at Adams & Fullton Streets in Brooklyn.
Carriage rides in Central Park.
Italian Ice street vendor in St. Mark’s Square, Greenwich Village.
Jewelry street vendor, Brooklyn.
News Stand, Brooklyn.
Good Humor Ice Cream vendor, Brooklyn.
Neighborhood vendor of rabbit dolls, Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Food vendor, Brooklyn.
Street vendor of unknown goods.
Salvation Army, Bridge & Fulton Streets, Brooklyn.
Children’s clothing store, Brooklyn.
Wig store, Brooklyn.
Snack Shop, Brooklyn.
Grocery store check-out.
“Suits” at the docks in Lower Manhattan.
Victory Grocery, 418 5th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Butcher Shop window.
Observations at a Laundromat
waiting—for—your—dog—by—he—tree expressions
crowded—rush—hour—subway awkwardness
to the washer—dryer rumble hum of human necessity
as the mellowing dusk gives way to stark fluorescents
a man flagellating in the corner
speaking in a tongue known only to himself
yelling at a half Indian hippie who’s
“dancing” her baby to sleep with bells
young women chatter away secret gossip
or look aimlessly at anything but another person
flitting around in fickle hidden worlds
— frozen faces … frozen hearts
spinning in time to dryer time
middle-aged couple sits and stares in different directions
wandering in little hidden worlds
.. he breaks the cool silence — “gotta cigarette?”
then off to Bronco—buster—pinball
filling space of missed moment of muddled awareness
a familiar almost-lover’s face appears among the crowd
an exchange of updated soon forgotten tidbits
… then off into the night
leaving behind the whirling colors
of human hearts and human minds
awkwardly awaiting clean sheets.
@ 1970 Jeffrey W Bloom
Family outing to Laundromat.
Truck driver fixing mirror.
Workers in the Manhole and under the El (elevated portions of the subway system).
Fire Engine at a night time empty lot fire.
Front Loader.
Utility workers on 5th Avenue and 13th Street, Greenwich Village.
Workers on scaffolding above PIzza shop.
Worker taking break from working on scaffolding in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Break time at record shop.
Break time in Greenwich Village parking lot.
Smoke break.
Shop owner chatting with Security Guard.
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