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 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...
by Andrea Cristina Gonzalez-Ramirez | Mar 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015, Team Fantastic Spring 2015
Meet Amanda Miller, a wigmaker and entrepreneur who’s taking New York City by storm. Her work has been featured in Broadway, the MET, TV shows such as SNL and The Good Wife and films like The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle....
by kathrynlong | Mar 20, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City
Private Video on Vimeo What’s it like to live with wild animals in your apartment? A licensed wildlife rehabilitator explains why she cares for squirrels, opossums, rabbits and more in her Brooklyn home—and how it feels when she finally sets them free. ...
by isabelriofrio | Mar 20, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City
Private Video on Vimeo Kris Bevilacqua has worked as an wild animal rehabber for the past three years. For the last few months she has been taking care of Rocky and Possum, two nocturnal animals. The rest of the story Kris Bevilacqua has been an wild...
by Patrick Donachie | Mar 20, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City
Private Video on Vimeo Antique jukeboxes have moved out of the bars and into collectors’ homes, and the country’s only full-time jukebox repairman is in Brooklyn. Perry Rosen has been fixing jukeboxes since the 70s, and he travels throughout the city to make...
by Samuel Lieberman | Mar 20, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City
Capri Djiatiasmoro, 63, takes a dive in Lake Memphremagog at the tip of Newport, VT in the dead of winter. International winter swimming officials sawed a 25m lane in the middle of lake and swimmers competed for seven hours in negative five degree air. See transcript...
