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Women such as Lucy Garcia. The 26-year-old mother of two boys, ages 9 and 6, Garcia is a payroll coordinator at the Sheraton New York, one of midtown Manhattan's largest hotels. Assigned to the food-and-beverage department, she helps compute wages, overtime payments and other payroll items for the department's 800 employees. And she balances the department's checkbook...
...estimated 6 million illegal immigrants now in the U.S. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has virtually stopped raiding businesses to look for undocumented workers. "It is much easier to find work now than ever before," says Josefina Diaz, a native of the Dominican Republic who cleans offices in midtown Manhattan. "It doesn't matter if you have a green card...
Surrounded by hundreds of decanters of Dior's latest fragrance, J'adore, Bernard Arnault, 50, swivels in an ergonomic chair at the head of a metallic gray conference table on the 16th floor of midtown Manhattan's new LVMH tower. Forget Calvin, Ralph and even Giorgio or Miuccia--this narrow-faced, thin-lipped, dimpled Frenchman is the most powerful person in fashion today...
...grandparents brought me into the fraternity of horse-players when I was about six, whisking me from midtown Manhattan to Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, Queens. We would make the 45-minute bus ride on a 20-passenger van owned and operated by a man named Gus, who, I would learn years later, died of a heart attack in the men's room at The Sands in Las Vegas. Gus had been married several times, and his last marriage ended when his wife gave him an ultimatum: me or horses. Gus chose horses...
...Untitled (6th Avenue, New York City)," circa 1932-1935, seems, at first glance, to be a simple snapshot of a crowd of men in midtown Manhattan. The faces and figures of some are blurred, evidence of the close proximity in which Shahn uses his camera. Yet, we see that Shahn's photography employs method in its apparent randomness--there is one man that draws our attention. This man is in the center of the photograph and in focus, and we see that he seems to be deep in thought, with a slight frown on his face...