For thousands of delivery people in New York, work is hectic, usually anonymous and often perilous when it involves bicycles. Young Jang, a photographer, orchestrated rare moments of sustained contact between customer and employee when she ordered food several times a day from her apartment and asked the deliverymen to pose for pictures. One of them, Muhammed Bella, works at Westside Brewhouse, where he waits on tables most days and pitches in as a deliveryman on Mondays. He says the customers are curt and rude much of the time. “They treat you bad,” says Bella, a native of Nigeria who lives in the Bronx. “Not everybody. But when you try to deliver to them, some people are drunk. They act up. I say nothing. I just say, ‘Thank you, have a good day, bye.’ ” ﻿Julie Bosman

New York restaurants that deliver through the online ordering service Seamless: 6,549

Delivery people who have received reflective vests, bicycle bells and lights from the city: 4,000