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Mr. Barr continues to sell newspapers even though his newsstand was torn down so that MTA can dig up the sidewalk to fix the train station. He had been renting the stand for five years before it was torn down. The owner of the newsstand and Mr. Barr don't know if they can get the stand back. The MTA said he has to wait months until they finish digging up the sidewalk. Until then he has no choice but to move his business to the streets and wait patiently.
His motivation is to survive. He must work like everyone else to pay his rent, to eat and the other basic needs of people. His goal for the future is to get his newsstand back and go on with his life. And he deserves to get it back because he is a hard-working man trying to make it in this competitive world. |
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Many
people have jobs where they wake up around 5 am to get ready for work
or school. While others are waking up, Benjamin Barr is up and already
working on the corner of Lenox Avenue and 111th Street, selling newspapers.
He's out there seven days a week from 5 am to 2 PM everyday or until
he sells all of his newspapers for the day.
It
is not the easiest job for someone to have because some days you have
a lot of sales and others days you might not have any. But it can be
considered one of the hardest because it requires you to be out from
five o'clock in the morning ever-single day of the year; through rain,
sleet, or snow. He has to be out there so he can make a living.
