Chasing the Dream
My Everyday Hustle: The Street Cart Vendor
Season 2017 Episode 2 | 3m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet Walid Abdelwahab, an NYC street cart vendor.
Walid Abdelwahab's “everyday hustle” is working long hours cooking and selling food from a cart in Manhattan to support his family. He also confronts constant challenges that come along with vending on New York City’s streets, from long hours to obstacles deliberately placed on “his” piece of sidewalk. If he can’t work, he can’t feed his family. Yet for him, it’s all part of his American Dream.
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Chasing the Dream is a local public television program presented by THIRTEEN PBS
Major funding for Chasing the Dream is provided by The JPB Foundation, with additional funding from The Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund and Sue and Edgar Wachenheim, III.
Chasing the Dream
My Everyday Hustle: The Street Cart Vendor
Season 2017 Episode 2 | 3m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Walid Abdelwahab's “everyday hustle” is working long hours cooking and selling food from a cart in Manhattan to support his family. He also confronts constant challenges that come along with vending on New York City’s streets, from long hours to obstacles deliberately placed on “his” piece of sidewalk. If he can’t work, he can’t feed his family. Yet for him, it’s all part of his American Dream.
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