Broken Windows, Shattered Lives

Outside of a public housing complex in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant neighbourhood, Ellisha Garner has set up shop on a folding table. She waves and shouts hello to people on the street and a couple men wearing uniforms stop by for lunch, a heaping plate of her jerk chicken, beans and rice and macaroni salad. They stick around to eat on the sidewalk in the shade of a tree, sharing laughs and conversation. “You can't judge a book by its cover,” says Garner, whose main job is a city bus driver. US: Black man 'shot by police' while helping patient She says she sells food on the side because her neighbours...