Members of the “Jokers” street gang at their neighborhood candy-store hangout, Brooklyn, 1959 — photo by Bruce Davidson [1080 × 1080]

You can see a plate of food in the corner. The Jokers hung out in a basement candy store that also served short-order food. It functioned like a tiny soda shop, but everyone in the neighborhood (and in Davidson’s notes) just called it “the candy store,” so that’s the language I used.