The soundscape of the Times Square-42nd St subway station is a confluence of social experiences disguised within the everyday cacophony. An active contributor to this environment is a community of Latin American street vendors (vendedores ambulantes). I attempt to elucidate their sonic contribution to the subway’s soundscape by examining the dynamic between their lives and labor. The sounding of their labor consists of monotone repetitions of the commodity—such as “mango, mango, mango, mango”—where semantic meaning elides and sound foregrounds to engage with transitory passengers. The banal everydayness of laborers in the subway tends to obfuscate the structural orientation that coerces certain vendedores ambulantes, particularly unpermitted Latin American women, to work in this environment. The vendors’ sonic contribution emerges through their positionality, an instance localized in this paper as a patch in the network of racial capitalism. Using the methodology of patchwork ethnography, I document the entanglement that my interlocutors experience between their lives and livelihood, using short but frequent visits to weave a thread that elucidates their contribution to the sonic fabric of the subway. This paper analyzes the “sounding” of subway street vending and the “hearing” of colliding modes of production, including the hegemonic mode of capitalism. In discussion with my interlocutors, vending sounds a history beyond the sound that is heard: the transition from criminalizing labor to criminalizing the identity of the laborer. Los vendedores ambulantes vocalize their work within and against the conditions perpetuated by the NYC municipality, and exacerbated by the Trump administration.