BEVERLY NGUYEN

On Orchard Street, bordering Chinatown and the Lower East Side, Beverly finds community in daily encounters: shop owners talking outside, familiar faces passing by, conversations carried across storefronts. “It’s not that I chose this neighborhood; it chose me.” From the shop’s doorway she watches connection happen, often between people who don’t share a language but share curiosity. The women around her, an embodiment of generosity: “However busy [they] get, they’re willing to help anybody they can.”