His name is Steeve Mackaya. He came to the U.S. from Gabon in 2013, lives in a homeless shelter Uptown and sells copies of the New York dailies each weekday morning from 5:30 to 8:30 a.m. at an informal street perch in Chelsea.
In this Sunday’s New York Times, Metro section writer John Leland and photographer Moshe Katvan highlight the most striking aspect of this street vendor’s M.O.: a scintillating collection of suits. Katvan struck up an instant connection with Mackaya (whose name is typoed in the paper as Steve Malek); a bout with polio as a child has left the African native wheelchair-bound.
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