If you think the economy is hitting you hard, quit your whining and think of the children!
In a heavy-hitting piece whose resonance is rivaled only by those Miley Cyrus photos everyone's talking about, NY Mag takes a look at the silent victims of the nosediving economy - namely, the children and their lemonade stands. Screw you and your $4 gas prices, the cost of lemons has risen 35% in the last year! So, just how are these poor entrepeneurs faring?
Well, Brooklynite mini-moguls in the making, Rebecca and Ari Horowitz (8 and 5, respectively), raised their prices this year from 50 cents a cup to a whole dollar! (The italics are not meant sarcastically, but meant to convey genuine shock and awe.) And, in their case, the price hiked worked. The tots bring home anywhere from $92 to $240 a day. And if you ask them, the proof is in the tasting of the pudding lemonade; when asked why their DUMBO-based stand does so well, Rebecca's saleswomanship comes out: "Because the lemonade is so good and the service is so good."
As for best friends Alston Biggs and Fischer Bodwell (both 10), they might want to rethink their real estate for next summer. Setting up shop outside Washington Market Park in the suburbia of Manhattan otherwise known as Tribeca, the BFF's bring home a comparatively measly $20. And it looks like they've got more than just the average cheap-o Tribeca dwellers on their hands, they've got liars as well! According to Fischer, "They’d say, “We’ll come back in one hour.” One hour later, they don’t come back." At the very least, we've got to give them some credit for trying. They're even doing their darnedest Kathy Lee Gifford impression. They pay Fischer's brother Henry "like, slave wages" to "carry a sandwich board [advertising their wares] around the park."
via NY MAG.
Photo courtesy of Collector's Quest.
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