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Her grandmother was a ragpicker, sifting through refuse for reusable material.

These include those working in farms and fields in rural areas, as well as children who work as ragpickers in cities or sell balloons, pens and other knick-knacks at traffic lights.

It would be an unheard-of luxury for the ragpicker or street vendor who lives day to day.

The ragpicker of Brooklyn works out of a 750-square-foot storefront a few blocks east of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, down a mostly residential side street in Williamsburg, where Hasidim and hipsters mix.

“We feel it,” said Islam, 59, who makes a living mainly as a ragpicker.