Brooklyn is teeming with commerce, the usual kind – new businesses, boutiques, restaurants, shops sprouting everywhere and a booming guerrilla commerce, thousands of mostly unlicensed street peddlers from all over the world. Like much of New York Brooklyn evokes a growing contrast between rich and poor, a widening class culture of people with money and people who serve them and take care of them. This street peddler seemed poignant to me, almost rueful. Album up on Facebook. Brooklyn exudes more energy and striving than I think I have ever witnessed anywhere.