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  • New York, NY - 5 May 2017. The opening day of the Frieze Art Fair, showcasing modern and contemporary art presented by galleries from around the world, on Randall's Island in New York City. Workers move a painting by Carsten Nicole in the Galerie Eigen + Art after a leak in the roof of the venue threatened the paintings.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 17 April 2020. A trash bin in front of a residence on E 29th St. in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood with a hand-lettered sign giving thanks to Department of Sanitation workers: “Thank You! We appreciate your work! Stay Healthy! Stay safe!”
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 2 March 2019. Scott Slawson, president of Local 506 of the United Electrical Workers of Erie, Pennsylvania speaking at Bernie Sanders' first rally for the 2020 presidential primary at Brooklyn College. Slawson was there to emphasize Sanders' support for trade unions and a living wage.
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  • New York, NY - 5 May 2017. The opening day of the Frieze Art Fair, showcasing modern and contemporary art presented by galleries from around the world, on Randall's Island in New York City. A worker prepares to move a painting by Carsten Nicole in the Galerie Eigen + Art after a leak in the roof of the venue threatened the paintings.
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  • New York, NY - 5 May 2017. The opening day of the Frieze Art Fair, showcasing modern and contemporary art presented by galleries from around the world, on Randall's Island in New York City. A worker prepares to move a painting by Carsten Nicole in the Galerie Eigen + Art after a leak in the roof of the venue threatened the paintings.
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  • New York, NY - 5 May 2017. The opening day of the Frieze Art Fair, showcasing modern and contemporary art presented by galleries from around the world, on Randall's Island in New York City. A worker prepares to move a painting by Carsten Nicole in the Galerie Eigen + Art after a leak in the roof of the venue threatened the paintings.
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  • Queers for Economic Justice and the UAW.
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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. Corrugated cartons for home delivery of groceries are stacked in tall piles in front of Blue Ribbon Groceries on Avenue J.
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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 – 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. Workers are in front of the Chase balloon.
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  • Queens, NY - October 2, 2016. Workers at Pata Paplean preparing Thai noodle soup at The Feastival of Queens at The Meadows Festival at Citi Field.
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  • Queens, NY - October 2, 2016. Workers at Pata Paplean preparing Thai noodle soup at The Feastival of Queens at The Meadows Festival at Citi Field.
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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 - 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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  • Queens, NY - October 2, 2016. Workers at Pata Paplean preparing Thai noodle soup at The Feastival of Queens at The Meadows Festival at Citi Field.
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  • Consolidated Edison workers restoring electrical power on the corner of Whitehall and Water Streets.
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  • A sign advertising the New York City Marathon, cancelled because of the storm, ironically states "Everything else is a warm-up." MTA workers in safety vests can be seen in the distance, beyond the still closed Whitehall Street subway station.
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  • MTA workers take a break outside the Whitehall Street subway station. Orange drainage hoses snake across the sidewalk.
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  • Office workers leave a building on Washington Street with belongings, passing ventilation ducts in place to dry the once flooded building.
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  • Workers empty trash bins filled with oil-soaked debris into a 30-cubic-yard roll-off trash container, their protective clothing soaked in oil. The smell of spilled oil permeates the air.
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  • Workers from the Painters and Allied Trades International Union hold a large banner reading "It's about jobs! Let's get American working again."
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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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  • Brooklyn, NY - 15 April 2020. A tractor-trailer from The Food Bank for New York City rolls down Campus Road near Brooklyn College. The food bank is seeing heavier demand for its services as workers are laid off.
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  • 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. Workers are in front of the Chase balloon.
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  • Queens, NY - October 2, 2016. Workers at Pata Paplean preparing Thai noodle soup at The Feastival of Queens at The Meadows Festival at Citi Field.
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  • A massive array of power cables lead from truck-mounted generators into 17 State Street. Workers, seen on the left, are hoisting material from the basement using a basic rope and pulley.
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  • Workers remove sandbags on Water Street. The sandbags are being loaded into small carts by hand, then emptied into roll-away containers.
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  • Workers wheel bins of waste from the once-flooded 17 State Street.
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  • Workers from Kansas City Power and Light have come from Missouri to aid in restoring power to lower Manhattan.
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  • Sex workers in the 2011 Pride Parade on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • A man representing sex workers in the 2011 Pride Parade on New York's Fifth Avenue with a placard offered Governor Cuomo a freebie for his support in legalizing gay marriage in New York.
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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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  • Workers wearing protective clothing installing ventilation ducts in the Albany Street service entrance to 90 West Street.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. A woman asks for help from a poll worker.
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  • Verizon worker Frank Xavier, on the right, talks to a co-worker. Xavier and his crew are based in Rhode Island.
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  • New York, NY - 10 September 2021. Official and private memorials are held at the 9/11 memorial site on the day before the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. A worker places roses in the names of some of those lost.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. A half hour after the polls opened, the line snaked around the block, and up and down Est 24th Street, a block away from Bedford Avenue, and continued on to Avenue J, and up East 23rd Street. The line on East 24th Street and Avenue I.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. A woman in line on Avenue I wears a mask that reads "VOTE."
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning.  A voter with a ballot being directed to a voting booth.
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  • Sheetmetal worker Nestor Lugo using a rawhide mallet to fold the edge of a stainless steel bain-marie for a food cart. The interior has easily-cleaned radiused corners, and a folded-over lip to keep the hot water from sloshing out during transportation.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. Some people brought folding chairs, some brought their children, and all seemed resigned to wait as long as it took. These people waitign on Bedford Avenue brought folding chairs, and at just after 10:00 when the doors opened, had been waiting since 8:30.
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  • A worker at 30 West St, wearing clothing oil-soaked from working in the flooded parking garage behind him. The tide mark from the floodwaters can be seen on the wall, above the shadow of his head.
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  • A recovery worker talks on his mobile phone inside the eerily-lit lobby on the Whitehall Street side of One State Street Plaza. A coiled length of corrugated drainage hose remains outside.
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  • A worker carrying two pieces of construction lumber studded with screws on Brighton Beach Avenue.
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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 worker from Macy’s Studio checks the inflation of Spongebob Squarepants.
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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 – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. A family brought their children a a bike trailer.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. A family brought their children a a bike trailer.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. Some people brought folding chairs, some brought their children, and all seemed resigned to wait as long as it took.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. A voter about to place his ballot in a scanner.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. An older voter with a wheeled seat gets assistance.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. Voters at the door to the polling place.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. Voters in line near the polling place.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. The entrance to the polling place at Brooklen College.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. The entrance to the polling place at Brooklen College.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. Some people brought folding chairs, some brought their children, and all seemed resigned to wait as long as it took. People wait at the corner of Bedford Avenue and Avenue I, about 0.3 miles (0.5km) from the doors.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. Some people brought folding chairs, some brought their children, and all seemed resigned to wait as long as it took. People wait on Bedford Avenue, noy far from the polling place.
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  • New York, NY, USA-23 March 2016. A worker dusting a Toyota Prius Prime, a hybrid which they expect to have on the market in August, 2016.
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  • A worker at Pukka Tea points out some of their herbal teas to a festival visitor.
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  • A worker sets off a pole draped in hundreds of firecrackers.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. A woman avoids the line by bringing her absentee ballot in and dropping it off.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning.  A poll supervisor directs a woman to a voting booth.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. A voter leaves the polling place after voting.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 24 October 2020. A line of people eager to vote 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 that morning. The entrance to the polling place at Brooklen College.
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  • 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. A worker walks by the Wimpy Kid, held down with nets and weight bags.
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  • New York, NY, USA-23 March 2016. A worker dusts a BMW X3 xDrive28i, a 2.0 liter 4-cylinder SUV.
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