Today, tucked away in the New York Times was a short piece printed from their City Room blog by 77-year-old literary lion Gay Talese chronicling his recent efforts to help New York’s panhandlers improve their signage.

“As I strolled past Bernard L. Madoff’s apartment house in the East 60s the other day on my way to cash a check at my neighborhood bank on Madison Avenue and 63rd Street, I was greeted by a middle-aged panhandler who sat on the sidewalk leaning against the bank’s brick wall waving a plastic cup in my direction”
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