Long hours and low pay were the rewards of the immigrant peddler. According to one son of a Lower East Side pushcart operator, his father would “get up at 5:30, go get his pushcart from the pushcart stable on Sheriff Street, New York city where he rented it for about a quarter a day. Then he’d wheel it over to the wholesaler on Attorney Street. Then he’d take it over to the ferry to Greenpoint. where he would make $2.00 or 2.50 a day, six days a week feeding a family of seven.

      Via: The Tenement Museum