I can remember driving down Horseblock Road into Farmingville and seeing many people hanging around on the corners and running to any vehicle that would stop.
They actually set up a "hiring center" at the old Kmart (now Kohls) off the Belt Parkway in Bensonhurst. They used to sleep there, among other activities.
I remember when 540 WLIE was a talk station and every morning Ed Tyll would be out covering the day laborer issue.
"I can remember driving down Horseblock Road into Farmingville and seeing many people hanging around on the corners and running to any vehicle that would stop."
They gather mainly under overpasses and bridges here. I purposely slow down and they approach me asking for work. This is a daily event for me. Meanwhile I know of American citizens who cannot find work. The latest a woman in her mid-twenties who used to live in my building with her grandma. After she got married she moved to Syracuse, NY. Her husband abandoned her with two little girls (7 and 4-years old) and 4 months pregnant with another and she returned to her grandma and looking for minimum-wage work. The local A&P, Italian restaurants, and McDonald are now run by mostly illegal aliens. It breaks my heart, I tell you!
See my post above.