The New York Observer

Jinx Oil Salesman

Every weekday morning, Randy Brisman commutes an hour and a half from his kosher home in suburban Long Island to Vandi Parfums, an herbal potions store he owns on 116th Street in East Harlem. There, Mr. Brisman, a 43-year-old with a slumped posture and disheveled brown hair, mixes and sells what he Read More