day labor in the city

26M. don’t really care for anything else rn since most shelters they put me in as a single male are borderline inhabitable but i need money and i wanna do it the right way. grew up in a small town where i knew plenty of landlords or just dudes with a truck doing construction jobs. i could work or with them for cash same day. how can i make connections like that in nyc where i don’t know anybody like that?

it would preferably need to be cash same day, at least for the time being. currently have no money or stable shelter so time and options are limited but ill take whatever i can get.