What It’s Like To Live In a Box, Homeless, In New York City

Posted by Karim Baz

February 23, 2008

Newcomers pay four-figure rents for studio apartments in this neighborhood. The actor Heath Ledger died just five blocks away in January. Mr. Foley parked his box here last summer, hard by the curb and hidden by nothing, and gave himself an address on the side with a black pen: 340 Broome Street.