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Karen Yi and Jaisal Noor

 

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It’s no walk in the park for day laborers

On Tuesday mornings, jobs or no jobs, day laborers gather nearby in Hart Park to chow down on a free hot meal provided by St. John's Bread and Life program.  But on Sept. 22, according to witnesses, their meal was interrupted when the NYPD arrived to sweep the more than 80 laborers out of the local public park.

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VIDEO :: Four years after the city created a commission to deal with the issue of day laborers, the group has issued its final report on how to protect those workers and hopefully get them off the streets. NY1's Ruschell Boone filed the following report.

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