Pearl Gabel

Meet the real pizza rats of New York City.Downs for New York Daily News) Jordan Sapon, 22, had never eaten pizza before he immigrated to New York City from his hometown in Guatemala in 2016 at the age of 14.50 minimum wage required in New York for small businesses, according to his federal lawsuit.Hundreds of sauce-slinging pizza joints across New York City have been jilting their employees out of thousands of dollars in hard-earned dough by underpaying them, refusing to dish out overtime and...

Over six years, I was drawn to a beautiful song in the streets of Brooklyn. What I finally found changed something deep inside me. In 2008, during a desperate search for an apartment, a realtor showed me an open loft on Bedford Avenue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

The patron saint of adult thumb-suckers is a 65-year-old Long Island salesman who looks strikingly like Hunter S. Thompson, down to the tinted aviator sunglasses and bald spot. He's asked that I call him by his middle name, Lazur. He doesn't want to use his first name because he imagines his professional clients may stop doing business with a grown man who sucks his thumb.