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| New York’s Only Rest Stop for Delivery Workers Just Closed. Now What? | New York’s Only Rest Stop for Delivery Workers Just Closed. Now What? |
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| Israel Lausell, 41, works between six and eight hours a day making evening deliveries in Manhattan for Uber Eats and Grubhub in addition to his day job at the New York City Department of Education. It is not easy money. “I’ve fallen on my bike. I’ve gotten hit by a car,” he said. | Israel Lausell, 41, works between six and eight hours a day making evening deliveries in Manhattan for Uber Eats and Grubhub in addition to his day job at the New York City Department of Education. It is not easy money. “I’ve fallen on my bike. I’ve gotten hit by a car,” he said. |
| For delivery workers like him, the weather and the uncertainty are the worst: “Sometimes we’ve made 20 bucks — and we’ve been out here all day long.” | For delivery workers like him, the weather and the uncertainty are the worst: “Sometimes we’ve made 20 bucks — and we’ve been out here all day long.” |
| The coronavirus pandemic brought with it an explosion of demand for doorstep deliveries. In New York City, there are now an estimated 65,000 delivery workers, riding bikes and scooters, day and night, often in terrible weather. But the city has created very little infrastructure to support this work force. | The coronavirus pandemic brought with it an explosion of demand for doorstep deliveries. In New York City, there are now an estimated 65,000 delivery workers, riding bikes and scooters, day and night, often in terrible weather. But the city has created very little infrastructure to support this work force. |
| New York City has fewer than 1,200 public restrooms. It has a problem with vehicles parked in or veering into bike lanes, and an abundance of hostile architecture — ostensibly public plazas that are designed to deter people from resting. | New York City has fewer than 1,200 public restrooms. It has a problem with vehicles parked in or veering into bike lanes, and an abundance of hostile architecture — ostensibly public plazas that are designed to deter people from resting. |