Amongst the million-dollar brownstones and artisanal coffee shops in Manhattan, an elderly gentleman carefully arranges his tools on a makeshift table beside his weathered Honda. Passersby might assume he's having car trouble. They'd be wrong. This is Raphael Davidson's office now—and business, remarkably, is picking up.
What you're witnessing is perhaps the most heartwarming act of defiance in recent New York history. After spending nearly half a century repairing the city's worn soles and broken timepieces, this 79-year-old craftsman refuses to let a landlord's greed write the final chapter of his story.
