It’s not often that you hear the details of a career lived on the streets, let alone by someone who raised a family from the money she earned working them. But Barbara Terry supplied them for an article in The New York Times. Trained to be a medical lab technician, by age 21 Terry’s husband had left, leaving her with children to support. So, she says, she turned to prostitution, working the streets of Hunts Point, a Bronx neighborhood of warehouses and repair shops that straddles a busy expressway. It’s where, Terry says, she has worked most of her adult life. “It was beautiful out here then,” Terry, who is 52 and a mother of four, told the Times, adding that there was plenty of money to be made — even if it meant routinely being arrested and spending time in the city’s main jail on Rikers Island. In the…   More →