Date: 9/14/07
What is the quickest way to get money? Pawning your goods! A lot of people are beginning to pawning their goods just to pay off debts or support their family. Most pawnshops in NYC are most common among theives and addicts. Some are in much crisis such as Ms. Maynard who needed the money to feed her kids. She spent all her money for her kids to go to Disney World. In my view, I would've thought these pawnshops were carrying items that were stolen.
A aqaintance of mine have been in a situation where her home was robbed. The two robbers took all her belongings including her family jewls. They had pounded all her goods at the shop. It was their simple way to get quick cash. She never got any of the items back.
One particular store in the Bronx call, Mr. Pawnbroker have customers going there to exchange their goods for money to pay off bills. These people in the area have to live on paycheck to paycheck. It's all to maintain a stable life. Although this pawnship in the Bronx is popular, the owner, Mr. Rosado still need to face the facts. Having to put up surveillance incase danger occurs. He worked his a way into the business to become co-owner of the shop.
Mr. Rosado has his eyes out for those who he believes stole items from others. He would refuse them if he doesn't trust them. You can also put a down payment for four months on an item. Unlike other states with a higher interest fee, New York only charge $19 of interest. This may be a someone's only option to give up a valuable to pay off a simple cable bill. It's life of New York, where everything is becoming so expensive. Everyone need to hold a support to live on.
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Amy, I do agree with you everything in NYC has become extremely expensive, and many of us do have to live paycheck by paycheck. Pawning items I guess due to that article has become an easy way out either if it’s for those who sell their precious items, or for the stealers. But I just believe that this article is just a very small aspectual view of a wider problem that NYC has. It great to see how this aspect, of rising costs, has deliberately reached pawn shops, but I think that we as members of this community are letting this issue fly by us. This should somehow be dealt with or should been proposed though a different article. Something than unlike pawn shops, though a great point of view, would have caught our attention differently.
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