Leon Levinstein belonged to the canon of photographers who discovered the street as their subject matter in the 1950s and 60s. He was not so much interested in individuals with a name or a story, but rather their poses, facial expressions, and the ‘convergence’ of various people in a single image. The four people in this photograph will never have known that for a split second they were the actors in a photograph portraying the hustle and bustle of a city like New York.