Hard Times Along Gasoline Alley -- Brooklyn NY

The NYT had a comprehensive article describing automobile life along
congested Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn:

"THEY can be seen all along Atlantic Avenue — urban foragers of a
sort, often bedraggled and always in search of a dollar. Many of them
pump gas, but that is not the only hustle along the strip.

As one regular walks on sections of Atlantic, a traffic-clogged 10-
mile road that runs from the Brooklyn waterfront to the Van Wyck
Expressway in western Queens, he holds a bottle of glass cleaner and
offers to wash car windows. Outside an auto parts store, street
mechanics replace brake pads and tune transmissions, using tools
hauled around in shopping carts."


For full article, including numerous pictures, please see:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/nyregion/thecity/17pump.html?ref=thecity


[Personally, as a motorist, I like to avoid such areas, I don't like
being aggressively solicited to pump my own gas.]
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