Lifen Fung, a chess hustler who is also the park's social worker

Five dollars a game buys a lesson nobody advertised as counselling. A park table, a kid learning the openings, a wall of regulars' photographs

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.