Inside a New York garbage collector's massive personal collection of treasures found in the trash
by David Pescovitz from on (#4Q9F6)
For more than three decades, New York Sanitation worker Nelson Molina has picked personal treasures from the garbage he collects in East Harlem. Now totaling more than 45,000 cataloged items, Molina has an astounding personal wunderkammer of treasures from the trash. Nicolas Heller profiles him in this wonderful short documentary.