His agenda and reach, in government and out, extended from criminal justice to urban planning, though his constituency prisoners, the homeless, the elderly and more hardly knew his name.
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Sotero Cirilo airs out a sleeping bag at the homeless encampment where he sleeps in Queens. The 55-year-old immigrant from Mexico used to make $800 a week at two Manhattan restaurants, which closed when the COVID-19 pandemic started, and he ended up homeless. “I never thought I would end up like this, like I am today,” he says.
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Sotero Cirilo sleeps in a small blue tent under a train track bridge in Elmhurst, Queens.
The 55-year-old immigrant from Mexico used to make $800 a week at two Manhattan restaurants, but they closed when the COVID-19 pandemic started. A few months later, he couldn’t afford the rent of his Bronx room, and afterward of another room in Queens he moved into.
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Sotero Cirilo stands near the tent, left, where he sleeps next to other homeless people in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
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Sotero Cirilo sleeps in a small plastic shelter under a train bridge in Elmhurst, Queens, in New York City.
The 55-year-old immigrant from Mexico once made $800 per week at two New York restaurants. But they closed when the COVID-19 pandemic started. A few months later, he could not pay the
rent for his room. I never thought I would end up like this, like I am today, he said in Spanish.