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New Yorker of the Week: Nick Moscovitz

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Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHARENick Moscovitz is on a mission to bring a smile to an unexpecting stranger’s face.&nbsp;Putting 50 years of experience as an artist to the test.&nbsp;“I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time with him. I’m smiling by the way, though you don’t see," Moscovitz said while walking into a pizzeria.He has been approaching strangers asking to take their picture.“I’ll make a portrait and I’ll send it to you afterwards," he explained.The pandemic slowed down his daily scavenger hunt, but he still finds about three new muses a day.&nbsp;“The best part for me about what I’m doing is that I see beauty in people, in regular people, who have no celebrity," Moscovitz said.He finds his subjects while riding the train or while waiting to get into the grocery store.“I have almost 7,000 portraits here," he said while scrolling through the pictures he shares on social media.Once a sketch is finished they’re uploaded to his website or Instagram. Moscovitz says the reaction is always extremely positive.&nbsp;“I give them the attention and then they can be proud of seeing themselves and showing themselves as art," he said.A master of his craft, it takes Moscovitz a couple of hours to sketch a portrait, hoping the real smiles will last much longer.&nbsp;In all his years, he says his favorite portraits are of the business owners who have worked tirelessly this year.&nbsp;“Those people that are working hard, that have to be on the street all day, and they don’t get the attention. And I know that giving them the attention makes the day for them memorable.”There’s no price, Moscovitz simply asks his subjects “to pay it forward."“It makes me happy, it just makes me happy," he said.For drawing out the beauty in everyone around him, Nick Moscovitz is our New Yorker of the Week.&nbsp;

Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHARENick Moscovitz is on a mission to bring a smile to an unexpecting stranger’s face.&nbsp;Putting 50 years of experience as an artist to the test.&nbsp;“I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time with him. I’m smiling by the way, though you don’t see," Moscovitz said while walking into a pizzeria.He has been approaching strangers asking to take their picture.“I’ll make a portrait and I’ll send it to you afterwards," he explained.The pandemic slowed down his daily scavenger hunt, but...

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