Outside the bodega on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 150th Street sits an ice machine of vintage make⁠— a seven-foot-high metal box of clanks and sighs, its one-hinged door anchored with a giant padlock, its sides chill and mumbling in the summer heat. Since it was placed new outside these premises and started going, […]

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