In Williamsburg Immigrant Woman Line Up for Day Labor

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    Day-Labor Williamsburg Above BQE 08/15/05

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    In Williamsburg, commuters on the busy Brooklyn-Queens Expressway are oblivious to the scene unfolding on an overpass above them of immigrant woman line up for day labor. The work at stake is $8-an-hour housecleaning, and those vying for a day’s scrubbing, mainly for Chasidic homemakers, stand in a crude ascending hierarchy of employer preference: Mexican and Central American women in their 30’s at the back, Polish immigrant women in their 50’s and 60’s in the middle, and young Polish students with a command of English at the head of the line.


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    dave
    dave
    18 years ago

    its my aunt, so cute

    NYPD 1 PP 14thFloor
    NYPD 1 PP 14thFloor
    18 years ago

    To Anonymous that said…At 3:39 PM,

    “now at 3:30 (MONDAY)8/15/05 pm a W member went to pick up a bus for a transport from 389 marcy ave. and he was stoped by the 90 PCT the officer took his lic. – reg. & ins. card and gave him a ess-cort untill penn station & then with the bus to the call, they are waiting for the sgt from the 90 PCT”

    it’s a false story

    dave
    dave
    18 years ago

    i would like a photo of the hot pink shmatte on the head, why they wear shamattes on the street, in the grocery store, is beyond me. its gustoshtolon, in ungarish. a chillul hashem, ekeldig.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    18 years ago

    Wat haPpnd with the unit on the way to the call

    NYPD 1 PP 14thFloor
    NYPD 1 PP 14thFloor
    18 years ago

    Believe it or not, we are going to look in to this, ones and for all

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    18 years ago

    now at 3:30 (MONDAY)8/15/05 pm a W member went to pick up a bus for a transport from 389 marcy ave. and he was stoped by the 90 PCT the officer took his lic. – reg. & ins. card and gave him a ess-cort untill penn station & then with the bus to the call, they are waiting for the sgt from the 90 PCT

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    18 years ago
    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    18 years ago

    This already appeared all over the news before pesach.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    18 years ago

    Its the top head-line in the metro section of today’s NY Times, Thanks Shloma Shamos for posting it

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    18 years ago

    This article is so old, why post it now?