
Down Goes Baumhor: Street Photographer Knocked Out by a Homeless Guy on 6th Ave in NYC by Larry Baumhor (Copyright 2023) It was just another day. I was walking East on 25th Street near 6th Ave to the Chelsea Flea Market when I shot a photo of two homeless men in front of a shelter, diagonally across the street where I sold vintage photography at The Garage Antique Flea Market for fifteen years. The Garage was razed in June 2014, knocked out by a real estate developer who built two luxurious hotels, back-to-back on 24th and 25th Streets. I often shot photos of homeless people from this shelter. I mean who has not taken a photo with their cell phone of a homeless person? Although I have a Sony camera with a strap around my neck, a little more obvious than a cell phone. After I shot the photo of the two homeless guys in front of the shelter, an African-American well-built slender man in his twenties looking disheveled, (I a...