by zacharywasser | Jun 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015
April Brucker is a singing telegram performer who is hired to wear crazy costumes, go into people’s houses, sing a song and make people laugh. Brucker plans to use her comedic and singing talents to take over the world. The rest of the story April Brucker is a...
by bob.sacha | Jun 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015 |
Glassblower extraordinaire Ben Barocas wants the high-end art glass pipes he makes to stand out from the pack. And you certainly can’t miss them – they come in his specialty shape of a cat butt. The rest of the story Manhattan glassblower Ben Barocas makes glass...
by aldennusser | Jun 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015
Perry Rosen is one of the last remaining full-time juke box repairmen in the New York area. The rest of the story New York City’s last jukebox repairman is still in business. Walking in to Perry Rosen’s garage in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn can feel a little bit...
by Emrys Eller | Jun 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015 |
Private investigator Michael McKeever has handled thousands of cases since 1977. He’s a modern-day Philip Marlowe in a changing industry, and he handles three kinds of cases: infidelity, locates and real estate and insurance fraud. The rest of the story In the...
by bob.sacha | Jun 25, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015
87-year-old Leonard Kahn has sold fur coats to generations of New York women. He’s the last remaining furrier in his family, and sells new and refurbished furs out of a midtown showroom and workshop. The US-made fur industry is shrinking, but Kahn has no plans to...
by gabrielaalonso | May 15, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 New York Stories of Compelling Issues, Team Fantastic Spring 2015
33 Women, 33 minutes, and one political prisoner. Oscar López Rivera was a Puerto Rican nationalist who has been incarcerated in the United States for 33 years on the charge of seditious conspiracy. He did not kill, or bomb any single person. This story follows...
by Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn | Apr 30, 2015 | 2015_Spring, s2015_Fff5, Team Fantastic Spring 2015
by kathrynlong | Apr 29, 2015 | 2015_Spring, s2015_Fff5, Team Fantastic Spring 2015
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by Samuel Lieberman | Apr 29, 2015 | 2015_Spring, s2015_Fff5, Team Fantastic Spring 2015, Where does this go?
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by aldennusser | Apr 28, 2015 | 2015_Spring, s2015_Fff5, Team Fantastic Spring 2015
by Bianca Silva | Mar 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015
Lloyd Ultan, 77, has been the Bronx Borough Historian since 1996. He is also a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey where he teaches various history courses. http://www.vimeo.com/123275506 The rest of the story Lloyd Ultan, 77, is a...
by Ken Aragaki | Mar 26, 2015 | spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City
Did you know New York City has official borough historians for the five boroughs? Lloyd Ultan, a native Bronxite, has been working as the Bronx Borough Historian for almost 20 years. He was appointed by then-Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer in 1996 and...
by Luke Tress | Mar 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City
Marsha Trattner is an artist/blacksmith in Brooklyn, and the only person teaching the ancient art of blacksmithing in New York City The rest of the story Marsha came across blacksmithing by accident after meeting some artists with a forge behind a squat...
by anarodriguez | Mar 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City
Password: fur Sight, Fashion and Style A furrier who for over 60 years had sold more than fur coats to women in New York City. Character description: Leonard Kahn is the last furrier of a generation that once had 14 family members working in the fur industry....
by bob.sacha | Mar 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015
Marsha Trattner is a sculptor and an artist. She’s also a blacksmith— the only one to teach this ancient art in New York City. The rest of the story Marsha Trattner was a sculptor. She then discovered blacksmithing and came to the realization that...
