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The Rag Man (Crown Heights, Brooklyn)

November 25th, 2011 by Brandon Stanton | No Comments »


He is called the Rag Man.  He wears strips of rags attached to his clothing. And he always carries a quarter in his hand, which he holds up into the sky, as if he’d just found it. He’s always quite genial.

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