Teddy Sison

Teddy Sison, a Philippine-born US Army veteran who collects cans during the day, and sleeps in a box on a cold sidewalk in Chinatown.

Lex Cachapero

Felix Quiros Cachapero or “Lex” is known in Manila as the “Angel Painter,”
having been able to hold seven solo exhibits of angel paintings from 1994
to 1999. He’s stranded in New York and now struggles to sell his paintings on the street.

Howie Severino, an award-winning investigative reporter in the philippines discovers that there are homeless Pinoys in New York. Howie and his cameraman Egay Navarro were walking in New York’s Chinatown way past midnight on their first night in the city last February in search for rats. He’s making a documentary about rats in New York in time for the Chinese Year of the Rat. But instead of finding a rat on a cold sidewalk in Chinatown, he met a homeless puerto rican man that led him to his neighbor Teddy Sison, one of homeless Filipinos in New York.

Read the rest of the story on “NPA (No Permanent Address) in New York” by Howie Severino


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