New York, NY - 30 October 2022. Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders (Cultura Mexicana sin Fronteras) held a Dia de Muertos celebration at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, with a memorial altar of offerings, photographs, and written memories, as well as Mexican food, crafts, and entertainment.

After a hiatus in 2020 bcause of COVID restrictions, the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade resumed in 2021

On May 1, 1970, there was a general student strike in response to the news that the U.S. had expanded bombing into Cambodia. There was a march against the war, led by Veterans for Peace in Vietnam; and after the May 4 shootings at Kent State University in Ohio, there were more protests at UW Madison, which led to the police being called in, and teargassing demonstrators in the streets and on campus.

New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. Buildings are boarded up in case of unrest, crowds gather in times Square to watch ABC News post results.

Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of voters eager to complete their ballots stretched for 0.6 mile (1 km) a half hour after the polls opened on the first day of early voting in New York. The doors at the early voting location at Brooklyn College in the Midwood neighborhood opened for voters at 10:00 AM, and a poll worker reported that the first person to arrive got to the doors at 4:30 AM. Some people brought folding chairs, some brought their children, and all seemed resigned to wait as long as it took.

Brooklyn, NY - 1 November 2020. Voters in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood stood in line in a light rain at a polling place in Brooklyn College to cast their ballots on the last day of early voting in the 2020 presidential election in New York. The poll was open from 7 AM to 4 PM today, and just before 4:00 the line stretched for half a block along Bedford Avenue, and twice the length and width of the quadrangle, about a quarter of a mile (400m) in all.

Since I can't photograph what I normally photograph—people, usually in the context of their work or personal environments—I've been documenting the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the small details of daily life that have changed for us, especially those of us in New York City.

New York, NY – 27 November 2019. Thousands of spectators packed the streets around the American Museum of Natural History to see the inflation area for the balloons for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The 2019 Greenwich Village Halloween Parade with the theme Wild Things!

Thousands of students as well as adults gathered in New York for the Global Climate Strike, meeting in Foley Square near the Federal Government buildings and New York's City Hall, and marching downtown to Battery Park, where Swedish climate activist and spokesperson Greta Thunberg addressed the crowd.

New York, NY – 16 September 2019. Massachusetts Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren drew a large and enthusiastic crowd at a speech for her increasingly popular 2020 presidential campaign in New York's Washington Square. Warren got the support of the Working Families Party earlier in the day. Her speech referenced the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which took place just a short distance from Washington Square, and was directed at her support for working people. She also spoke at length about her recently announced anti-corruption plans.

Long Island City, NY – 8 March 2019. Massachusetts Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren drew an enthusiastic crowd at an organizing rally for her 2020 presidential campaign in Long Island City.

New York City's annual Easter Parade and Bonnet festival, 2019

New York, NY - 24 March 2019. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) held a presidential campaign rally on New York's Central Park West in Front of the Trump Hotel and Tower.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders held a "get out the vote" rally in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and attracted a crowd estimated by his team to be over 28,000. Prints for personal use are available here. For editorial rights, click here: http://diimex.com/MediaSet/Edit/48598

Dina "Cha Cha" Pisani is a milliner making custom hats, primarily for women, in a small workshop on New York's Lower East Side. I spent some time with her as she worked on a number of hats.

Stephen Beekman is a luthier and stringed instrument dealer in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. He transitioned to this career after working as a specialist welder for nucler submarines.

Rick Martin makes crowns for religious statues in his basement workshop. He's the last one in the U.S. doing this.

800BuyCart manufactures food carts for New York City street food vendors. These images were shot for a web story published by Edible Queens.

The history of black watermen on the Chesapeake depicted in a quilt constructed from family memorabilia.

Opening day at the Frieze Art Fair 2017 in New York, with a focus on the visitors, and how they view and react to (or don't react to) the art. Lots of smartphones featured.

The 2016 New York Frieze Art Fair on Randall's Island.

A glimpse into the fourth year of the Frieze Art Fair, a marketplace for contemporary art, in New York City,

A procession of ghouls following a performance of Lon Chaney's 1925 silent film of The Phantom of the Opera at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, October 27 2017

The 2017 New York Pride March, complete with costumes, activism, and, unsurprisingly, much more political expression than in past years. There was also a lot more commercial representation, none of which is represented here.

New York City's 2016 Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival, on Fifth Avenue, with its hats, bonnets, and costumes. For editorial stock images, go to http://diimex.com/MediaSet/Edit/45740

The 40th Anniversary Greenwich Village Halloween Parade—ghouls, goblins, zombies, weirdos, ...

Faces and costumes in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.

New York's 2011 Pride Parade on June 26 took on an even more celebratory air, coming less than two days after gay marriage was legalized in the state. The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community as well as LBGT supporters and general public turned out to watch the spectacle.

The 2012 NYC Pride Parade: costumes, politics and religion.

New York City's Pride March, 2014

Coney Island's annual Mermaid Parade

I was taken by the Picasso sculptures at MoMA, and amused and disappointed that so many people were so busy taking photos of the sculptures that they weren't spending any time actually looking at them.

Behind the scenes and in the show ring at the 140th Westminster Kennel Club dog show at Madison Square Garden on February 16, 2016.

Behind the scenes at the evening group judging of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden.

The first annual agility trials at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show were held on February 8, 2014, in New York City.

Images from behind the scenes at the 137th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, New York City, 11 and 12 February 2013.

WantedDesign, an exhibit of international furniture, lighting and graphic design, in New York City, May 2012.

WantedDesign, an international exhibit of furniture, lighting, and graphic design, in New York City, May 2015.

Bklyn Designs is part of NYCxDESIGN, an annual festival of design in New York City.

The press preview of the 2015 New York International Auto Show included debuts of cars from around the world and ranging from energy-efficient family cars to concept cars and supercars.

The press preview of the 2017 New York Auto Show at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

The 2016 New York Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Center. Images for personal use as well as editorial stock images are available here.

Mano a Mano, a Mexican cultural organization, produced a celebration including the building of a public altar for the Dia de Muertos at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. Mexicans traditionally remember deceased friends and family on All Souls’ Day.

The first Jazz Age Lawn Party of 2013 on Governors Island.

A collaborative four day festival of conferences, workshops and projects exploring the future of cities was capped by a street festival that featured created art, culture, performances, and sustainability displays in New York's Bowery neighborhood.

Brooklyn's Pratt Institute celebrates New Year's Eve by extending a steam line from it's historic power plant into the quadrangle to power a steam calliope and a collection of steam whistles.

Native speakers of Nahuatl, an Aztec language of Mexico, shot in cooperation with the Endangered Language Alliance.

A week after hurricane Sandy brought floodwaters into the streets and buildings of New York's financial district, the area is still cleaning up. Workers pump water, remove hazardous waste, and restore electrical power and telephone service.

Dances of Vice held its annual Halloween Ball at Riverside Church on October 27 and called it the PhantasmaGorey Ball after illustrator and author Edward Gorey.

Occupy Watt Street at Zuccoti Park in lower Manhattan on October 17, 2011.

New York's Chinese New Year Parade wound through Chinatown to celebrate the Year of the Dragon.

One Million Moms for Gun Control march in New York City on January 23, 2013

New York City's annual Pride March in support of the LGBTQ community was held on June 30, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

The opening procession of the 2012 PEN World Voices festival on New York's High Line.

The 20th anniversary of 9/11

The 2022 Armory Show of modern and contemporary at opened at the Javits Center in New York.

Pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian demonstrations at the Russian consulate, Ukrainian consulate and United Nations in New York City on 26 and 28 February 2022

New York's Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival brought a variety of hats, bonnets, and creative Easter finery to Fifth Avenue in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

New York, NY - 19 May 2022. The Frieze Art Fair opened to the public in The Shed, an exhibit space in Hudson Yards, with 65 galleries displaying contemporary art in several media.

New York, NY - 24 July 2022. Models and artists converged for the annual body-painting event in Union Square. Founded by artist Andy Golub, the event is produced by Human Connection Arts.

The literary free speech organization PEN America held a rally on August 19 to support author Salman Rushdie on the steps of the New York Public Library a week after Rushdie was attacked during a presentation at Chautauqua. #StandWithSalman included a host of writers, many of whom read from Rushdie’s works, and all of whom supported him and his decades-long support of the right to write and publish.

New York, NY – 19 January 2024. The Winter Show, an annual exhibition of antiques and fine and decorative arts, and which benefits the East Side Settlement House, opened in the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue; the show runs through 28 January.

The 2024 Lunar New Year Parade in New York's Chinatown

The 2024 New York St. Patrick's Day Parade

The Affordable Art Fair, New York, March 2024

New York, NY – 31 March 2024. Manhattan's Fifth Avenue fills with colorfully costumed and elaborately hatted celebrants for the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival.

Artexpo NY 2024 opened on Pier 39

New York, NY – 25 April 2024. The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) show of historical, modern, and contemporary photography opened at the Park Avenue Armory.

New York, NY - 2 May 2024. The Frieze Art Fair, one of New York's largest and most prestigious spring art fairs, opened to the public in The Shed, in Hudson Yards, with galleries displaying contemporary art in several media.

New York, NY – 1 May 2024. The Future Fair, an art exhibition for small art galleries and the artists they support, opened in New York.

New York, NY – 1 May 2024. The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair opened in New York, with galleries from around the world exhibiting the work of African artists.

Brooklyn, NY — 2 June 2024. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade brought out celebrants in colorful nautical costumes, from merpeople to pirates to fish to islanders.

New York, NY – 30 June 2024. New York's Pride March filled Fifth Avenue with marchers and spectators, many in costume, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.

New York, NY – 30 June 2024. Pro-Palestinian protesters hold up New York's Pride March on Christopher Street, a block from the historic Stonewall Inn, refuse to move, and are eventually peacefully arrested and taken away by police.

New York, NY – 2 September 2024. Participants and spectators crowded Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights for the annual West Indian American Day parade, displaying island flags and colors, and dancing to Caribbean music.

New York, NY — 4 September 2024. Artist Colleen Kong-Savage leads a crew of volunteers on a project for New York’s Chinatown Business Improvement District to paint a mural on the entirety of Doyers Street, a 200-foot (61m) long pedestrian street lined with restaurants and small businesses.

New York, NY – 5 September 2024. The annual Armory Show, which runs through 8 September 2024, an exposition featuring over 225 galleries from more than 35 countries showing modern and contemporary art opened to the public at the Javits Center.

New York, NY – 6 September 2024. The autumn 2024 art show season continues in New York with the Art on Paper show at Pier 36 on South Street.

New York, NY — 26 September 2024. The fall Affordable Art Fair, which runs through September 29, opened in the Metropolitan Pavilion with galleries from the U.S. and overseas showing modern and contemporary art in many media.

Brooklyn, NY – 1 Oct 2024. Striking longshoremen at Brooklyn's Red Hook Container Terminal, responsible for loading and unloading container ships, join the first day of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) strike against shipping companies for better wages, benefits, and working conditions in U.S. East Coast ports.

Some night photographs of the Great Elephant Migration installation in New York City's Meatpacking District.

Brooklyn, NY – 26 October 2024. On the first day of early voting in New York State, a few people arrived 40 minutes before the polls opened at 8:00 at the Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood to insure they had a place in line.

New York, NY – 27 October 2024. Crowds of supporters of Donald Trump, many wearing MAGA or Trump branded caps and shirts, gather outside Madison Square Garden ahead of an evening rally.

Voters in the 2024 presidential election turn out in Brooklyn's Borough Hall on the morning of election day.

New York, NY – 9 November 2024. Protesters from several groups as well as individuals join the Protect Our Futures march near Columbus Circle in protest of policies proposed by the incoming Trump administration.

New York City, NY – 11 November 2023. The annual Veterans Day Parade gathered American veterans, foreign veterans, and their supporters to march up Fifth Avenue.

Brooklyn, NY - 1 January 2025. Thousands of bathers and spectators showed up on a cloudy and windy New Year’s Day for the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Coney Island, sponsored by the Alliance for Coney Island.

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade drew crowds of costumed participants along with bands, dance troupes, stilt walkers, commercial floats, and giant puppets.

New York, NY - 6 January 2023. Protestors backed by Free Speech for People rally on the steps of the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman building on the second anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

New York, NY – 20 January 2023. The Winter Show, an annual exhibition of antiques and fine and decorative arts, and which benefits the East Side Settlement House, opened in the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue.

Brooklyn, NY – 2 April 2023. The amusement parks at Coney Island opened for the season today, after a month of safety inspections and a blessing of the rides by Rocco Brescia of the Salt ad Sea Mission in front of Deno's Wonder Wheel, a prime attraction.

Brooklyn, NY – 30 April 2023. The Brooklyn Public Library hosted The People's Ball, an alternative to the A-List Met Gala open to all, with an inclusive runway, co-hosts Delissa Reynolds and Rob Fields, dj sets by Rimarkable, entertainment by Cunio, and special guests Mickalene Thomas and Souleo.

Queens, NY – 4 June 2023. The Queens Pride Parade reflected the diversity of what many consider the most diverse of New York City's boroughs, with participants from cultures spanning the globe.

10 June 2023. The 18th Annual Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island.

Brooklyn, NY — 17 June 2023. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade brought out participants in colorful nautical costumes, from mermaids and their sailors to pirates to islanders.

The New York City 2023 Pride March.

Boston, Massachusetts – 5 November 1868. Vote With Your Feet protest and antiwar march in Boston, organized by SDS, the Massachusetts Mobilization, and New England Resistance. SDS organized contingents beginning on Cambridge Common and at Boston University to march to a rally on Boston Common to urge people not to vote in the election.

Brooklyn, NY, USA – 12th July 2023. A tall steeple, bedecked in lilies and carrying a band, is borne on the shoulders of parishioners and paraded through the parish as part of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. The steeple, or “giglio,” is bounced, or “danced” in the street several times during the 11-day feast, including this “night lift.”

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade drew crowds of costumed participants along with bands, dance troupes, stilt walkers, commercial floats, and giant puppets.

New York City – 2 November 2023. The Art Show, benefiting the Henry Street Settlement, opened in the Park Avenue Armory, with 78 members of the Art Dealers Association of America showing a range of art from established and emerging artists from around the world.

New York City's 2023 Veterans Day Parade