Sometimes a picture just says it all.
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I took this picture in Penn Station last night, while I was waiting for my train.
I looked up to see the jarring juxtaposition of the perky sign (!) and the sleeping homeless man. At the last minute, a man in a suit and briefcase walked into the frame, completing the stark mix of race and class.
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Photo Credit: Author
For Mike Kasdan’s prior work on homelessness on The Good Men Project, see:
The Untold Stories of New York’s Homeless
So true…and jarring… we cut through the back passages of Penn Station with my family and friends and saw those homeless people hanging out on the floor like you pictured…