NEW YORK, N.Y. — On a cold February evening, I found myself in a fire engine red Toyota Tundra parked on Fifth Avenue outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art with none other than the “Hot Dog King,” Dan Rossi. Rossi, a 71-year-old Bronx native, is a vendor with the juiciest…

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Worn-down armrest-less chairs, occupied by the occasional patient, lined the walls of the room. There were two vending machines off to the side. One sold beverages. The other sold cheap snacks: Doritos, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter M&Ms, probably some odd breakfast pastry too. I always found…

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Sopheaneat “Sophie” Pol, a Chinese Cambodian student attending The King’s College in New York City, felt the atmosphere around her change when the virus started spreading in the U.S. in March. Even before fear and quarantines emerged around the nation, she noticed that people would intentionally step…