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  • 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. A woman photographs a detail of Danielle De Jesus’s “Below the 7 Train Platform” in the François Gebaly gallery.
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  • 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. Michael Rosenfeld’s booth was devoted to Nancy Grossman’s paintings, drawings, and sculpture, particularly works reflecting humanity’s darker sides, like the 1991 “Gunhead.”
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  • 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. An overview of the open part of the second floor; the show spread over floors 2, 4, and 6, with a lounge on 8. (There are no floors 1, 3, 5, nor 7.)
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  • 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. An overview of the open part of the second floor; the show spread over floors 2, 4, and 6, with a lounge on 8. (There are no floors 1, 3, 5, nor 7.)
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  • 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. The Company Gallery showed works by queer feminist artist Cajsa von Zeipel, including this oversized sculpture showing women wearing cameras mounted to leather harnesses.
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  • 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.  A woman takes a photograph in The Modern Institute’s booth, with Jesse Wine’s sculpture “Persil” on the floor and Matt Connors’ painting “A Bird Flying Through a Tunnel” on the wall.
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  • 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. Pedro Reyes “Agit Prop Pop Up” with anti-nuclear war art and T-shirts.
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  • 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. Alex da Corte’s “No!” in the Matthew Marks gallery.
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  • 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. A woman wears an outfit with the large, graphic label on the back that reads “White Non-Supremacist.”
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  • New York, NY - 24 November 2021. Crowds throng to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon inflation site, which opened for public viewing the afternoon before Thanksgiving. Two women take a selfie in front of one of the balloons.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. Workers board up a branch of Bank United on the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 36th St in anticipation of unrest as election results are announced.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' Howard Levy on harmonica and VIctor Wooten on bass.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A woman dressed as a Pharaonic Egyptian is handed a smartphone prior to the start of the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 24 November 2021. Crowds throng to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon inflation site, which opened for public viewing the afternoon before Thanksgiving. A woman with a dog takes a selfie by one of the Macy’s balloons.
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  • New York, NY - 24 November 2021. Crowds throng to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon inflation site, which opened for public viewing the afternoon before Thanksgiving. Crowds fill the staging site around the American Museum of Natural History to see the parade balloons.
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  • New York, NY - 24 November 2021. Crowds throng to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon inflation site, which opened for public viewing the afternoon before Thanksgiving. A spectator, one among many, photographs the balloon of a character from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. Television crews set up to broadcast on Fifth Avenue a half block from Trump Tower.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. A police barricade formed my sanitation department trucks and police busses blocks access to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.g
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. Two Black men, one wearing a sweatshirt that reads "Fuck Trump BLM" are interviewed near the Trump Tower.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. Rockefeller Center, which was the scene of crowds listening to election announcements in 2016, is closed to all, while the building itself is lit in red, white, and blue.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. Patience, the statuary lion on the south end of the steps of the New York Public Library, carries a book asking people to read, think, and vote.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. Patience, the statuary lion on the south end of the steps of the New York Public Library, carries a book asking people to read, think, and vote.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. Workers board up a branch of Bank United on the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 36th St in anticipation of unrest as election results are announced.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. The stores on the ground level of the Herald Towers in Herald Square are boarded up in anticipation of unrest after election results are known.
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  • 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 polls closed at 4:00, but these people were the last in line at 4:30, and still had a wait ahead of them. Anyone who made it to the line by 4:00 was allowed to vote.
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  • 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.
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  • New York, NY - 30 June 2019. The New York City Heritage of Pride March filled Fifth Avenue for hours with participants from the LGBTQ community and it's supporters. Marchers carry banners in memory of people in the LGBTQ community who have died.
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  • New York, NY - 30 June 2019. The New York City Heritage of Pride March filled Fifth Avenue for hours with participants from the LGBTQ community and it's supporters. Marchers carry banners in memory of people in the LGBTQ community who have died.
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  • New York, NY - 30 June 2019. The New York City Heritage of Pride March filled Fifth Avenue for hours with participants from the LGBTQ community and it's supporters. New York Governor Mario Cuome, center, hand raised high, was greeted with loud applause for having signed the law making same-sex marriage legal in New York in 2011.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones on stage.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' bassist Victor Wooten.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flectones' percussionist Roy "Future Man" Wooten playing a drumitar, a drum synthesizer, a keyed drum synthesizer shaped like a guitar.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell.  The Flecktones Howard Levy on harmonica.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' percussionist Roy "Future Man" Wooten on drums and a drumitar, a keyed drum synthesizer shaped like a guitar.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Béla Fleck on a Deering Crossfire banjo.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Nellie McKay at the piano.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A woman with green face makeup and a witch's hat made up to look like Elphaba, the wicked witch in The Wiz in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A man dressed as gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, complete with fedora, camera and a smoke,  in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. Two men wearing space suits in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A man in a bright, feathered  peacock costume in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. Two women wearing costumes that appeare to be jellyfish in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A woman in orange and black butterfly wings in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A drum line made up of energetic women from the Batala NYC Samba Reggae Drum Band in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. The Afro-Brazilian band is composed entirely of women.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A woman in heavy black and white harlequin makeup in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A parade-goer dressed as a nun, made up to look like a cross has been incised on her forehead, and smoking a cigarette, in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade
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  • New York, NY - 24 November 2021. Crowds throng to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon inflation site, which opened for public viewing the afternoon before Thanksgiving. Workers from Macy’s Studio inflate Spongebob Squarepants.
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  • New York, NY - 24 November 2021. Crowds throng to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon inflation site, which opened for public viewing the afternoon before Thanksgiving. Workers from Macy’s Studio inflate Spongebob Squarepants.
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  • New York, NY - 24 November 2021. Crowds throng to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon inflation site, which opened for public viewing the afternoon before Thanksgiving. A crew from Macy’s Studio inflates the Pillsbury Dough Boy with helium.
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  • New York, NY - 24 November 2021. Crowds throng to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon inflation site, which opened for public viewing the afternoon before Thanksgiving. Smokey Bear lies face down under nets weighted down by sandbags until the parade.
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  • New York, NY - 24 November 2021. Crowds throng to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon inflation site, which opened for public viewing the afternoon before Thanksgiving. 72d Street was packed an hour before the cutoff time of 6:30, and at that point it took an hour to get to the staging site.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. A forklift drives a load of framing lumber to be used to board up storefronts in anticipation of post-election unrest past Radio City Music Hall on West 50th Street.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. A police barricade formed my sanitation department trucks and police busses blocks access to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. A police barricade formed my sanitation department trucks and police busses blocks access to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. A woman on Fifth Avenue near Trump Tower wears a Keep American Great hat, an All Lives Matter mask, and displays a banner that reads "Women For Trump."
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. A couple walks by the boarded-up Michael Kors store in Rockefeller Center.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. Fortitude, the statuary lion on the north end of the steps of the New York Public Library, carries a book asking people to read, think, and vote.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. The Liberty, on West 35th Street, has a TV on the sidewalk so passers-by and outdoor diners can follow the election results.
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  • New York, NY - 3 November 2020. New York City anticipates presidential election results as polls in some states close. The H&M store in Herald Square is boarded up in anticipation of unrest after election results are known.
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  • 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. After the last of the voters were in the quadrangle a poll worker took up directional signs.
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  • 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 woman in the center voted early beause she did not trust sending an absentee ballot through the mail.
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  • 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.  A woman with a cane is helped out after voting.
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  • 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. The line in the quadrangle from the entrance, along one side, and back down the length of the quad.
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  • New York, NY - 30 June 2019. The New York City Heritage of Pride March filled Fifth Avenue for hours with participants from the LGBTQ community and it's supporters. A man carreis a sign reading "I'm HIV + queer proud."
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  • New York, NY - 30 June 2019. The New York City Heritage of Pride March filled Fifth Avenue for hours with participants from the LGBTQ community and it's supporters. Marchers with brightly colored flags perform a routine.
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  • New York, NY - 30 June 2019. The New York City Heritage of Pride March filled Fifth Avenue for hours with participants from the LGBTQ community and it's supporters. A group of 78ers, participants in the first LGBT Mardi Gras in Sydney, Australia.
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  • New York, NY - 30 June 2019. The New York City Heritage of Pride March filled Fifth Avenue for hours with participants from the LGBTQ community and it's supporters. A man dressed as a woman surrounded by a makeup table leads a German group.
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  • New York, NY - 30 June 2019. The New York City Heritage of Pride March filled Fifth Avenue for hours with participants from the LGBTQ community and it's supporters. The rainbow arch of ballons was preceded by the number "50" in a tall balloon arrangement.
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  • New York, NY - 30 June 2019. The New York City Heritage of Pride March filled Fifth Avenue for hours with participants from the LGBTQ community and it's supporters. Under the rainbow balloon arch prior to the start of the march.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones Howard Levy on harmonica.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. A backlit crowd stands and cheers at the end of the Flecktones' set.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell.  The Flecktones Howard Levy on harmonica.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' bassist Victor Wooten and his brother, percussionist Roy "Future Man" Wooten.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' bassist Victor Wooten and Béla  Fleck.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Nellie McKay at the piano.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A couple with radioactive hazard signs on hazmat suits carry glowing objects in large tongs in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. An Asian man ornately costumed and made up as a Japanese geisha in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A man  in a bubble-wrap cape, a fiber-optic collar, and sparkles, in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A father carries his child, who is dressed as a furry animal, in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. Because Halloween fell on a Saturday, there were more children than usual in the parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A crowd behind police barriers waits its turn to enter the parade route on 6th Avenue for the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A smiling African-American woman, made up to look as though she's streaked in blood, gives a big smile in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A man in a Rough Rider costume, and made up to look like Theodore Roosevelt, gives a thumbs-up sign in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A man in heavy makeup, wearing a green Robin Hood costume, carries a sign that says "Mary Man", and advertising that he's looking for merry men.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A couple made up with spidery makeup in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A couple made up to look like calavera catrinas in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. La calavera catrina is traditionally a female figure, with a skull for a face.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A woman bedecked in a glittery costume dancing at the start of the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A woman dressed as an elf in Santa's workshop, complete with workbench, tools and toys, at the start of the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. Her name tag reads "Sparkle Twinklebaum."
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. A man with a death's head mask and carrying a staff with a replica skull on it in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2015. Drummers from the Batala NYC Samba Reggae Drum Band warm up in SoHo Square before the start of the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. The Afro-Brazilian band is composed entirely of women.
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  • 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. A wall covered in Carol Bove sculptures in the David Zwirner gallery.
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  • 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. Many of the galleries had labels placed only 3 feet (less than 1 meter) from the floor, and visitors had to either bend down or photograph them in order to read them.
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  • The Astroland Rocket at Coney Island was launched in 1962 as a simulator space ride, one of the first. It was decommissioned and removed in the 1970s, but has since returned as a static remnant of its past.
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  • Spook-a-Rama, a dark ride in the Deno’s Wonder heel amusement park in Coney Island. First opened in 1955, and renovated and shorted in 2013, it’s full of spooks, zombies, and similar horrors designed to frighten riders.
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  • The lead horse on the B&B Carousell (the double-l is original) is this Abraham Lincoln horse carved by Marcus Charles Illions to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth in 1909, with a shiny cape with Lincoln’s bas-relief portrait. The carousel dates to 1906, and was restored using original methods starting in 2008. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
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  • Maimonides Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team.
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  • The elaborate Art Deco entrance to 711 Brightview Court in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood, probably the most elaborate such entrance in the neighborhood.
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  • Volna, a Russian restaurant on the boardwalk in Brighton Beach, a neighborhood with a large population of Russian emigres.
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  • The elaborate main entrance to Coney Island’s Luna Park on Surf Avenue.
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  • The Phoenix roller coaster at Deno’s Wonder Wheel amusement park in Coney Island, a steel-framed roller coaster in which riders sit in chairs suspended from an overhead track.
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  • Ruby’s Barr & Grill, on the Coney Island boardwalk has been open since 1972, and occupies the same space as a bar that opened in 1934. Ruby’s preserved parts of the original wooden boardwalk inside, where you can walk under it.
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  • Hearts by the street artist Hektad on an exterior fence of the Coney Island Art Walls.
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