Natalia Paruz, who serenades straphangers with her musical saw, isn’t getting the tips she used to. That was clear on a recent Thursday at the Herald Square station in midtown Manhattan, her ...
Findlay Market is enforcing a long-standing rule prohibiting street performers from playing amplified sound. Violinist Preston Bell Charles III, a longtime Findlay Market performer, stopped playing ...
For centuries, street singing was considered the lowest form of a musical career. Street musicians—buskers—were looked on as glorified beggars. But cities that once outlawed busking have come to ...