Zainab Owusu, a woman behind a 1925 soda fountain on Lexington

Endurance keeps being mistaken for a strategy, in her case for decades. A full griddle worked single handed at the rush, four in the morning

OPEN THE RECORDON THE ATLASHANG IT IN THE MUSEUMGET COUNTED

Part of NEW YORKERS by MLow, a painted census of New York City: 7,541 characters across 19 eras. Read the history of the places or spin into a room of the museum.