Grate Fishing Frame Color:Natural "This is our first time

"This is our first time in New York

3 in the 2017 Times guide

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The Waterbury turnout in the main square at 3 A

Grate Fishing Frame Color:Natural "This is our first timeA 12 year old boy goes fishing with "uncanny skill" for coins and other treasures in the city's subway grating in 1959. His only tools: a small rock tied to a 12 foot piece of string and some lard (which is used to make the rock sticky). He then lowers the line and hauls up his catch. Sometimes a dime, sometimes a subway token, sometimes a ring of gold. Times photographer Allyn Baum captured the boy as he was surrounded by a large crowd in Times