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The umbrella was probably bought off one of the many street vendors who somehow eke out a living along Broadway selling a menagerie of all things cheap, plastic and made-in-China. However, at 3 bucks a pop, they are no match for the storm winds that funnel through Manhattan’s urban canyons and they break like matchsticks – the umbrellas that is, not the street vendors. This particular parasol didn’t seem content with being discarded though. Instead, it took some initiative and transformed itself from a broken, useless umbrella into an appendix of the trash can, helping to contain the approximately 50,000 tons* of trash York City produces daily. [Sidenote: In case you were wondering, 50,000 tons of trash would fill up the Empire State Building more than twice in less than a week, and is equivalent in weight to roughly 12,500 elephants. How the city collects most of this with any modicum of success is mind-boggling.]
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