23-year-old mechanic rakes in $2,200 a night off single NYC pothole: ‘One man’s misfortune is another man’s blessing’

Source: New York Post

The city’s dismal pothole-repair efforts are so bad that a 23-year-old mechanic is raking in at least $2,200 a night setting up shop with a stack of replacement tires next to a crater in Brooklyn. Javier Yat told The Post on Tuesday that he changes so many tires on a typical night working out of his van around Exit 9A on the Belt Parkway that he runs out of new wheels mid-shift. 6 Javier Yat, a 23-year-old mechanic from Brooklyn, has made a side hustle out of a single city pothole.