"Escalating Fruit Wars
By A. G. Sulzberger
fruit standsPhotographs by Damon Winter/The New York Times Three fruit stands share one city block in Midtown. The first (top) is on 9th Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets. The second (middle) is on 43rd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, and the third (bottom) is closer to the corner of 43rd Street and 10th Avenue.
Bulent Unal, 45, has piled his table high with apples, bananas and mangoes on the same bustling stretch of 9th Avenue for years now, weighing and bagging fruit at a frenetic pace for the tourists heading to Times Square and the office workers crowding the sidewalks between 42nd and 43rd Streets."
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