A pandemic year in the life of a New York City block “Is this going to be like this forever?” An oral history of fear, endurance, and hope in Sunset Park. People gathered for a “Unity March Against Hate” in Sunset Park in Brooklyn on March 14. Gabriela Bhaskar for Vox Jesús Delgado and three of his employees are making tortillas like they’ve been doing every day for the past month. One feeds a giant ball of fresh masa into the metal mouth of a tortilla machine, while two more stack the puffy, steaming rounds that roll out onto a conveyor belt. A fourth man weighs and packages the stacks for the customers, who will come from down the block, or as far away as Maryland or Pennsylvania, to buy them from Tortilleria La Malinche. The Sunset Park tortilleria is one of the only places in Brooklyn that actually makes them fresh.