New York man makes $500 a week from gold in pavement cracks
20th June 2011
Raffi Stepanian, 43, has begun crawling around the New York ‘Diamond District’ on his hands and knees, plucking jewels and fragments of precious metals from between the slabs.
Armed with a pair of tweezers, Mr Stepanian, an unemployed diamond setter from Queens, claims to have collected $1,010 (£623) worth in the past fortnight.