Streets of El Barrio: East 97th Street between Park Ave and Madison Ave in Spanish Harlem, upper Manhattan

Kima, Keisha and Pam of R&B group Total, with Foxy Brown, Da Brat and Lil’ Kim on the video set of “No One Else (remix).”

Thursday, December 7.

There are apples, and then there are apples.

And this would be the latter. In fact, apples really don't come much bigger. If this particularly large apple were a nation-state, it would have the tenth-largest economy in the world. Which is pretty good, for an apple.

But this is New York City, after all, and its reputation precedes it. Sometimes described as the world's most important city, sometimes as the capital of the world, it truly is all things at once. It is defined by its fevered, electric pace of life. A global city in which 800 languages are spoken, it is a cultural, historical, sporting, and political superpower. It is, famously, The City That Never Sleeps. Better still, it enforces a right-to-shelter law ensuring, in the legislature, a bed and roof for anyone who needs one, regardless of immigration status.

Today it transpires that #new york is trending. A lot is going on, so take your time. Enjoy it.

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exodus 2023 NY, United States

Photos of trans women and femmes in NYC from 1930-1940 by street photographer Weegee and colorized by doctoral candidate Eli Erlick in UC Santa Barbara . Go check out the thread!

On Weegee:

"Weegee also frequently shot [trans people] picked up by the police. “At the time, these were staples of the tabloids, and I’m sure they were not received warmly,” says Bonanos. “They were probably look-at-this-freak pictures. When he makes them, though, they’re not cruel.” Such pictures speak to Weegee’s compassion for underworld characters, a group he clearly had empathy for. “One gets the sense that he, at least in the photographs, had an attitude of, ‘Ah, let them do whatever they’re going to do.’. He was not a person who was overtly political. But I think he had that streak of – as the expression goes –  comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable,” he adds, explaining Weegee’s approach to shooting different classes. "

Oliver Dunn, BBC Culture

Times Square, NYC | 2024

We finally got some snow in New York. These are a few shots I took yesterday.

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Taking a Break

New York City, 1968

PHOTO: Paul Fusco

Tiny signs of resistance

Jameson, 29

“I'm wearing a corset and shoes from Eckhaus Latta, shorts are Nike.”

May 14, 2022 ∙ Bushwick

Streets of El Barrio: East 97th Street between Park Ave and Lexington Ave in Spanish Harlem, upper Manhattan

Suffocate

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value of negative space 2023 Staten Island NY, United States