Mickey And Minnie May Be Undocumented
Times Square in New York City has its fair share of icons – the towering Coca-Cola sign, the TKTS booth, the red staircase made famous by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. On any given day in Times Square you’re also likely to bump into a more mobile sort of American icon-a crew of people dressed up as Winnie the Pooh or Elmo or Woody from “Toy Story,” standing on corners and mugging for photos. Reporter Bruce Wallace has this story about the people inside of those costumes.You might guess that finding a 5-foot tall woman dressed in a red-and-white Minnie Mouse costume would be easy. But, in this case, you’d be wrong.
The Minnie I wanted to talk to is named Andrea. I’d talked to her once before, but she was busy and told me to find her later. A day or two later I went to Times Square. The first Minnie I approached just shook her head. I walked up to a second. “Andrea?” I asked. “No soy Andrea, usted es Andrea?” she said, laughing. “I’m not Andrea, are you Andrea?” I’m pretty sure she was making fun of me.
I didn’t find Andrea that day.
I finally did catch up with her, and we made plans to meet at a small home she shares with a bunch of other folks in Passaic, New Jersey, a working-class town about 40 minutes by bus from Times Square. We sat at a table in a cramped kitchen. One of the Mickey Mouses-in civilian clothes– as there making soup.
The Mickeys, Minnies, Elmos, and Winnie the Poohs scattered across six or seven blocks in Times Square are mostly Latino, and mostly undocumented. On a typical day they’ll spend seven or eight hours waving hello and posing for pictures with the throngs of visitors who fill Times Square, asking for small tips in return.
Mohammed Rahman has worked at a nearby newsstand for four years, and says he’s noticed a big increase in the fuzzy characters recently. They come over and buy sodas from him, sometimes he’ll talk business with them. He actually had his picture taken with one of the Mickeys; he put it on Facebook for his family back in Bangladesh to see.
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By The World ⋅ November 24, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment Times Square in New York City has its fair share of icons – the towering Coca-Cola sign, the TKTS booth, the red staircase made famous by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. On any given day in Times Square you're
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