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Rahman Khandker | NYC Fruit Vendor



The New Yorker

Rahman Khandkerha has been on his corner (Church and Chambers Streets, in Tribeca) for more than a decade. Exactly how many fruit carts span the New York City’s streets is an enigma—official records don’t differentiate between types of the five thousand and forty licensed food vendors—but the number is substantial enough to have made them an integral, iconic facet of the sidewalk scene.
 

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