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  • Life Photo, offering passport and immigration photos and fax and other services to the Russian-speaking community on Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach Avenue. Much of the signage is in Russian, reflecting the dense population of Russian-speaking people in the area.
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  • Life Photo, offering passport and immigration photos and fax and other services to the Russian-speaking community on Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach Avenue. Much of the signage is in Russian, reflecting the dense population of Russian-speaking people in the area.
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  • New York, NY, USA-23 March 2016. The Jacob Javits Center was crowded with vehicles, the press, industry insiders, and manufacturers' signage at the press and trade pre-opening of the New York Auto Show.
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  • The elaborate main entrance to Coney Island’s Luna Park on Surf Avenue.
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  • The elaborate main entrance to Coney Island’s Luna Park on Surf Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue as illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text. New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue as illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text. These, translated from Russian, read “Stop Putin’s War” and “Unite for the Sake of the World.” As the sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
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  • Brooklyn, NY 5 April 2020. Penny Lane, a discount store that had just opened on Avenue J and E 16th Street in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, is closed as a result of COVID-19. Signs sadly announce the store's grand opening.
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  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. A young family watches the march from beneath scaffolding on Broadway. One girl holds a sign reading "Save Earth" and wears another reading "dinosaurs = extinct."
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  • 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. A few Trump supporters were on the sidqalk outside the rally with signs and a banner.
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  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. Spectators on a fire escape overlooking Fifth Avenue beside a sign that reads "Cation: Queers Crossing."
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  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A marcher carries a sign reading "Shoot Loads Not Guns."
    EJL 220626 1338.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A trans man holds a sign that reads "Trans Men For Abortion."
    EJL 220626 1312.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. Two marchers carry signs protesting the recent Supreme Court decision against abortion rights, singling out Justice Clarence Thomas: "Stay the Fuck Out of Our Lives Clarence Thomas."
    EJL 220626 1290.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A marcher carries a huge banner reading "Spread Love Not Bullets," in reaction to the recent Supreme Court decision to ease restrictions on guns.
    EJL 220626 1269.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A spectator carries a sign that reads in part "Abortion — Today / Same Sex Marriage Tomorrow / Don't Let Supreme Court / Do That!"
    EJL 220626 1202.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. An abortion rights activist spector holds high a sign reading "Abort the Court."
    EJL 220626 1172.jpg
  • 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.
    EJL 220519 1013.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text drive around the block to pass in front of protesters facing the United Nations across First Avenue. This one, coming down 42d Street, and about to turn onto First Avenue, reads, translated from the Russian, “Stop Putin’s War.”
    EJL 220228 1161.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text drive around the block to pass in front of protesters facing the United Nations across First Avenue. These, coming down 42d Street, and about to turn onto First Avenue, read [in Russian] “Sanctions Now” and [in English] “End Putin’s War.”
    EJL 220228 1156.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue as illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text. This one, translated from the Russian, reads "Stop Putin's War." As the sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1142.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue. A man carries a sign with a photo of Putin with a haircut and mustache like Adolf Hitler’s, and which reads “Putler [sic.] Hands Off Ukraine.”
    EJL 220228 1120.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters waving Ukrainian flags face the United Nations from across First Avenue. One wears a sign reading “Putin is the Hitler of Our Generation. Don’t Let Him Win.”
    EJL 220228 1098.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters waving Ukrainian flags face the United Nations from across First Avenue. As illuminated sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1085.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters waving Ukrainian flags face the United Nations from across First Avenue. As illuminated sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1084.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue as illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text. New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue as illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text. These, translated from Russian, read “Stop Putin’s War” and “Unite for the Sake of the World.” As the sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1039.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Anti-war signs, votive candles, and floral tributes in front of the Ukrainian consulate on East 49th St.
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  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. A protester outside the Russian Consulate on East 91st Street wears a sign with English text on one side, and Russian text on the other. The English side, in two parts, reads “Keep killing the Russian Soldiers and Officers” and “God Bless the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” As he explained the Russian side, he said it was three variations of “Fuck you, Russians.”
    EJL 220228 1017.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Signs on police barricades facing the Russian Consulate on East 91st Street read “Hands Off Ukraine” and “Stop The War.”
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  • New York, NY - 26 February 2022. In Manhattan’s East Village, a sign in the window of the venerable Ukrainian restaurant Veselka, long a fixture in New York’s Ukrainian culture, reads “Putin / Game Over.”
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  • New York, NY - 26 February 2022. One can see signs and tributes of flowers protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside the Ukrainian Consulate in New York City.
    EJL 220226 1033.jpg
  • New York, NY - 26 February 2022. One can see signs and tributes of flowers protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside the Ukrainian Consulate in New York City. This sign reads “Stand With Ukraine.”
    EJL 220226 1031.jpg
  • New York, NY - 26 February 2022. One can see signs and tributes of flowers, one bunch in the Ukrainian colors of blue and yellow, protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside the Ukrainian Consulate in New York City.
    EJL 220226 1029.jpg
  • New York, NY - 26 February 2022. One can see signs and tributes of flowers protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside the Ukrainian Consulate in New York City. One sign reads “МИЗ ВАМИ,” which translates to WE / YOU; the other, in English, reads “Stand With Ukraine.”
    EJL 220226 1026.jpg
  • 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. 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.
    EJL 201103 1031.jpg
  • 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.
    EJL 201103 1030.jpg
  • 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 2 April 2020. A sign taped to the shuttered Threading Spa on Flatbush Avenue in the Midwood neighborhood fo Brooklyn notes the business is closed, and asks that patrons visit the business's website.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 26 March 2020. Residents of New York City have been asked to stay home as a result of the novel coronavirus, and all but essential businesses have been asked to close. In Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, many businesses have their shutters rolled down, and the few that are open limit the number of people who can enter. A sign on a closed business on Nostrand Avenue.
    EJL 200326 1006.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY - 26 March 2020. Residents of New York City have been asked to stay home as a result of the novel coronavirus, and all but essential businesses have been asked to close. In Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, many businesses have their shutters rolled down, and the few that are open limit the number of people who can enter. A sign on a closed laundromat on Avenue J.
    EJL 200326 1007.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY - 26 March 2020. Residents of New York City have been asked to stay home as a result of the novel coronavirus, and all but essential businesses have been asked to close. In Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, many businesses have their shutters rolled down, and the few that are open limit the number of people who can enter. Here, a sign on a Chinese/Mexican restaurant on Nostrand Avenue.
    EJL 200326 1002.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY - 26 March 2020. Residents of New York City have been asked to stay home as a result of the novel coronavirus, and all but essential businesses have been asked to close. In Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, many businesses have their shutters rolled down, and the few that are open limit the number of people who can enter. A sign on a closed business on Nostrand Avenue.
    EJL 200326 1004.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. A woman holds a sign reading "this planet needs you to give a shit."
    EJL 190920 1756.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. A young woman holds a sign that reads "The Lorax speaks for the trees & the trees say fuck you," while another woman holds a sign reading "this planet needs you to give a shit."
    EJL 190920 1753.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. A large banner describes a number of climate issues and poses the question "who gains from climate catastrophe?"
    EJL 190920 1726.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. The crowd marches down Broadway towards Battery Park.
    EJL 190920 1715.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. Two signs read "Empower the youth / represent your voice / advocate for diversity / in climate," and "Youth of color for climate."
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  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. A young woman holds her hand up, on the palm of which is written "Climate Justice!!"
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  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. Marchers bearing signs march down Broadway towards Battery Park.
    EJL 190920 1132.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. Seen in the crowd is a sign with the figure of a woman holding the earth, and reading "Our mother is not for sale."
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  • 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. Pro-Trump supporters at the entrance of the rally carry signed reading "Trump 2020." "Women for Trump," and "Pro BDS Anti Semite Gillibrand." BDS refers to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.
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  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A family of three with a banner that reads "Supreme Court" with the word Court crossed out and the word "Cunt" substituted for it. The other side of the sign reads "We'll love our son even if he's straight."
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  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A woman holds a sign reading "Nope It Wasn't Just a Phase."
    EJL 220626 1311.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights.  A woman holds high a sign that reads "Bans off My Body."
    EJL 220626 1228.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. Two spectators carry signs, one with a raised first, the other reading We're Next! / #justvote"
    EJL 220626 1209.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A couple carry signs that read "My Son Got Married," with a photo of two men; and "You are not alone ... I'll be your MOM today."
    EJL 220626 1205.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A family of three watches the parade; the child carries a rainbow sign that reads "My 1st Pride."
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  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A religious proselytizer holds a sign that reads "Power in the Blood Repent & Be Saved."
    EJL 220626 1195.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A sign reading "Queers Crossing" on a building on 5th Avenue at 23rd Street.
    EJL 220626 1131.jpg
  • New York, NY — 26 June 2022. New York City's 2022 Pride March kicked off on Fifth Avenue, with participants both jubilant and dismayed over the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. A woman carries a sign that reads "Abortion Access is a Jewish Value."
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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 - 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.”
    EJL 220519 1015.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text drive around the block to pass in front of protesters facing the United Nations across First Avenue. This one, coming down 42d Street, and about to turn onto First Avenue, reads “Unite for Peace.”
    EJL 220228 1159.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text drive around the block to pass in front of protesters facing the United Nations across First Avenue. These, coming down 42d Street, and about to turn onto First Avenue, read “Sanctions Now” and “End Putin’s War.”
    EJL 220228 1157.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue as illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text. This one translated from the Russian, reads "Sanctions Now." As the sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1133.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters waving Ukrainian flags face the United Nations from across First Avenue. A man carries a sign reading “Hands off Ukraine.”
    EJL 220228 1118.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue. A man carries a sign with a photo of Putin with a haircut and mustache like Adolf Hitler’s, and which reads “Putler [sic.] Hands Off Ukraine.”
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  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Part of a group of pro-Ukrainian protesters across First Avenue from the United Nations, a woman carries a sign painted like the Ukrainian flag and captioned “Stop War in Ukraine.”
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  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters waving Ukrainian flags face the United Nations from across First Avenue as illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text. This one, translated from the Russian, reads “Stop Putin’s War.” As the sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1103.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters waving Ukrainian flags face the United Nations from across First Avenue. As illuminated sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1089.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters waving Ukrainian flags face the United Nations from across First Avenue. As illuminated sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1087.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters waving Ukrainian flags face the United Nations from across First Avenue. As illuminated sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1073.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters waving Ukrainian flags face the United Nations from across First Avenue. One wears a sign reading “Putin is the Hitler of Our Generation. Don’t Let Him Win.”
    EJL 220228 1067.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue. These carry signs reading “No War,” “Stop Putin,” and “Stand With Ukraine.” As illuminated sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1058.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue as illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text. As the sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
    EJL 220228 1032.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. People wait to enter the Ukrainian consulate on East 49th St., the front of which is covered with anti-war signs and floral tributes.
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  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. A protester outside the Russian Consulate on East 91st Street wears a sign with English text on one side, and Russian text on the other. The English side, in two parts, reads “Keep killing the Russian Soldiers and Officers” and “God Bless the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” As he explained the Russian side, he said it was three variations of “Fuck you, Russians.”
    EJL 220228 1018.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. A protester outside the Russian Consulate on East 91st Street wears a sign with English text on one side, and Russian text on the other. The English side, in two parts, reads “Keep killing the Russian Soldiers and Officers” and “God Bless the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” As he explained the Russian side, he said it was three variations of “Fuck you, Russians.”
    EJL 220228 1014.jpg
  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. As people wait to get in to the Russian Consulate on East 91st Street, a Russian-language anti-war sign on a police barricade includes a brief translation in English: “No War.”
    EJL 220228 1005.jpg
  • New York, NY - 26 February 2022. One can see signs and tributes of flowers protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside the Ukrainian Consulate in New York City. This sign reads “МИЗ ВАМИ,” which translates to WE / YOU.
    EJL 220226 1030.jpg
  • New York, NY - 26 February 2022. One can see signs and tributes of flowers protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside the Ukrainian Consulate in New York City.
    EJL 220226 1028.jpg
  • New York, NY - 26 February 2022. One can see signs and tributes of flowers protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside the Ukrainian Consulate in New York City.
    EJL 220226 1024.jpg
  • 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.
    EJL 201103 1029.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY 5 April 2020. Penny Lane, a discount store that had just opened on Avenue J and E 16th Street in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, is closed as a result of COVID-19. Signs sadly announce the store's grand opening.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 27 March 2020. Restrictions on the public during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to business and government closures throughout Brooklyn's neighborhoods. A sign taped to a shuttered Social Security office on Nostrand Avenue announces the closure of the office until further notices. Although services are available online, many people who use the office do not have internet access at home, and since libraries are closed, public access is limited.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 26 March 2020. Residents of New York City have been asked to stay home as a result of the novel coronavirus, and all but essential businesses have been asked to close. In Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, many businesses have their shutters rolled down, and the few that are open limit the number of people who can enter. This restaurant on Avenue J offers take out only, and limits the people who can enter to three at a time.
    EJL 200326 1018.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY - 26 March 2020. Residents of New York City have been asked to stay home as a result of the novel coronavirus, and all but essential businesses have been asked to close. In Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, many businesses have their shutters rolled down, and the few that are open limit the number of people who can enter. A kosher pizza shop has oits shutters rolled down, but hopes to open before Passover.
    EJL 200326 1017.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY - 26 March 2020. Residents of New York City have been asked to stay home as a result of the novel coronavirus, and all but essential businesses have been asked to close. In Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, many businesses have their shutters rolled down, and the few that are open limit the number of people who can enter. Here a sign on a nail salon on Nostrand Avenue.
    EJL 200326 1001.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. A woman holds a sign with a picture of a green alien, reading "save your planet'" and a girl holds a sign reading "U will die of old age I'll die of climate change."
    EJL 190920 1758.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. A sign reads "Keep earth clean, it's not Uranus."
    EJL 190920 1722.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. Two signs are visible, one reading "We love you Greta you inspire us to act to stop the climate crisis. Thank you!", and the other "Make America Greta again!"
    EJL 190920 1673.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. Marchers on Broadway carry signs, one of which reads "Aliens please help! We broke our planet :( leaders too vain, corrupt, to fix :("
    EJL 190920 1139.jpg
  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. Marchers bearing signs march down Broadway towards Battery Park.
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  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. A sign decorated with a plastic cup, fork, straw and bag reads "your convenience is not convenient."
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  • 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. A Trump supporter walks down the dignwalk outside the rally with large pro-Trump flags.
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  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Pro-Ukrainian protesters face the United Nations from across First Avenue as illuminated sign trucks bearing anti-war alternating Russian and English text. This one, translated from the Russian, reads "Stop Putin's War." As the sign trucks drove by, the crowd rotated through three chants: “Russian Warship, go fuck yourself;” “Stand with Ukraine;” and “Stop Putin, stop the war.”
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  • New York, NY - 28 February 2022. Anti-war signs and floral tributes in front of the Ukrainian consulate on East 49th St.
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  • 20 September 2019 - New York, NY.  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. A young woman has "prosescute polluters" lettered on her cheeks.
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  • New York, NY - 11 November 2019. New York City's Veterans Day Parade, today marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice ending the fighting of the first World War, was attended by a number of people protesting President Trump, who spoke at the opening ceremony, and a smaller number of pro-Trump supporters. A man carries a sign reading "Vets Against Trump," while women hold signs reading "We honor all who served not Cadet Bone Spurs" and "Honor Veterans Don't steal From [them]"
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  • New York, NY - 11 November 2019. New York City's Veterans Day Parade, today marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice ending the fighting of the first World War, was attended by a number of people protesting President Trump, who spoke at the opening ceremony, and a smaller number of pro-Trump supporters. A woman has a sign reading "Bone Spurs don't go away / show us the x-rays."
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