I work downtown now

... stands with her head thrown back and her eyes closed. The guys stop talking and eye me languidly as I pass by. The girl does not stir. I emerge onto the bright and busy Fulton. A Hasidic jew with chin-length sidelocks is pushing a black bugaboo stroller down the street, his wife trailing behind. I enter the subway and descend down and down and down again to take my train to the swimming pool.

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... shirt buttoned to the throat with no tie. His hat, a black homburg, sits squarely on his head; the rim of his black yarmulke is just visible at the back, and his iron-grey payess , the sidelocks of the truly devout, are curled in front of his ears. His eyes dart around the carriage, stopping regularly to check on his grandson and granddaughter, still and solemn in front of him. The little boy ...

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I work downtown now

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