The bullet passed through the victim and struck a deli worker in the leg, but the worker was not seriously injured, the police said.

"More than working, it's important to pay respects," said Ramiro Resendic, 25, a deli worker in midtown Manhattan who took the day off.

The situation, though not yet a crisis, has made sidewalk experts of everyone from building superintendents to deli workers.

The deli worker, she said, told her he did not know how to call the police.

Before the official site opened, there would have been three times as many, a deli worker said.

There is a handful of bartenders and deli workers and a phalanx of limo drivers.

In fact, a totally unscientific survey of deli workers around the city revealed that this practice is meant to help you.

A local deli worker said she saw Mr. Smith run out of the school holding two guns at the time of the killing.

A knife-wielding deli worker at a Memphis supermarket wounded eight co-workers, injuring one critically, before he was tackled outside the store, the police said.

Before running for Parliament, he was a deli worker at Woolworths.