New York Panorama
Every Sunday in the Metropolitan section, a photographer offers a new slice of New York.
Vu, w/RmsManhattan
A showroom for prospective tenants was set up last Monday on the 63rd floor of 1 World Trade Center, well above the floors where the 1,776-feet-tall building’s first occupants, employees of Condé Nast, were starting to settle in.
Nov 9, 2014Suspended In FlightManhattan
‘Skyfarm Fortress,’ an installation of 15,000 kites hanging in the Mary Boone Gallery on West 24th Street, inspired wonder and aching necks on a rainy October Saturday.
Nov 2, 2014The Center Of the Universe (Roughly)Manhattan
Hayden Planetarium, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Also pictured: Saturn, Jupiter, etc.
Oct. 26, 2014Transportation AlternativesWilliamsburg
The scene along Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, near the East River.
Oct. 19, 2014Tier of JoyWashington Heights
Looking down from the balcony at a youth orchestra rehearsal at the United Palace Theater in Washington Heights, the mother of one of the musicians (some as young as 5) preserves the moment.
Oct. 5, 2014Street FareNoHo
The scene on Sept. 21 outside Il Buco, a rustic Italian restaurant in NoHo that is known for its sidewalk pig roasts. This year, the Sagra del Maiale (Festival of the Pig) celebrated Il Buco’s 20th anniversary.
Sept. 28, 2014Shadow StrokeQueens
Novak Djokovic (or at least his silhouette) returning a shot in a second-round match against Paul-Henri Mathieu at the United States Open. Djokovic won, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0.
Sept. 7, 2014Hello, Kitty!Bronx
Evelyn Andrades and her pet, who answers to, or ignores, that name (it’s a cat, after all), take the air in the Crotona Park East section of the Bronx.
Aug. 31, 2014The Deep EndEast River
A competitor in the Brooklyn Bridge Swim in late July. Participants swam from the Manhattan stanchion of the Brooklyn Bridge to Dumbo in Brooklyn. Because of strong currents, many participants had to be rescued.
Aug. 24, 2014A Shady PastFlatiron District
The facade of 1165 Broadway in the Flatiron district hints at the building’s checkered history: Among legitimate small businesses, it housed an enormous counterfeiting operation. The facade, which has landmark designation, will serve as a shell for a future glass tower.
Aug. 17, 2014Moonlight MileBrooklyn
During construction in Prospect Park in Brooklyn this summer, streetlights were out for several nights. Runners and cyclists were instead guided by the glow of traffic signals.
Aug. 10, 2014Bowery Girls (and Friend)Manhattan
Fans of the California band the Colourist line up outside the Bowery Ballroom. The show was part of the band’s first national tour.
Aug. 3, 2014Another Game, Another RecordBronx
Derek Jeter, No. 2, taking the field with his teammate Brian Roberts in a home game against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night. In the ninth inning with one out, Jeter passed Lou Gehrig’s record for most doubles as a Yankee with his 535th career double. The Yankees won, 2-1, in 14 innings.
July 27, 2014Under the NeedleBrooklyn
Steven Avalos, 29, the owner of Evil and Love Tattoo in Greenpoint giving a koi fish tattoo to Manny Ramos, 24.
July 20, 2014Winner StaysUpper West Side
A pickup soccer game on the Upper West Side in July 2012. Played well before the tournament in Brazil, the game — no doubt beautiful — had no World Cup implications.
July 13, 2014‘Good Game’Bronx
A ritual familiar to Little League players everywhere was practiced by members of competing youth baseball teams after a game in Claremont Park, in the Bronx.
July 6, 2014Jolly Old Souls Midtown
Patrons on a recent Thursday evening at the King Cole Bar and Salon at the St. Regis Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Behind the bar, Maxfield Parrish’s 1906 mural “Old King Cole.”
June 15, 2014Liberty in View Battery Park City
On the Hudson River waterfront in Battery Park City, a woman contemplates the harbor before an afternoon rainstorm.
June 8, 2014University of Java Manhattan
Annie Doran making an espresso during a class at the Broome Street training center of Counter Culture Coffee.
June 1, 2014Fancy Flight Roosevelt Island
On the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, children and their families let loose their creations at a kite-making workshop on May 18.
May 25, 201412 Years Later Manhattan
Inside the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which opens to the public on May 21, is the I-beam steel cross that survived the towers’ destruction in 2001.
May 18, 2014Many Fish, Small PondBronx Zoo
A school of shellcracker fulu (Haplochromis ishmaeli) in the Jonathan L. Cohen Crocodile Pool, part of the “Madagascar” exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. The exit sign in the distance is for the building, not the tank.
May 11, 2014And One With MustardWashington Square Park
Stella, a 13-year-old Dachshund, at the Dachshund Friendship Club Spring Fiesta last weekend in Washington Square Park.
May 4, 2014Clearing Winter BloomsWoodside, Queens
A pile of wreaths and flowers gathered from gravesites at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens, awaiting disposal.
April 27, 2014Correction, April 28, 2014: An earlier version of this picture caption misspelled the name of the cemetery. It is Calvary Cemetery, not Cavalry.
Jetpack JoyrideQueens
Robert Courter, wearing the Bell Rocket Belt at the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens, demonstrating the personal transportation of the future.
April 20, 2014Skyway to HeavenNew Jersey
At dusk, you can hardly tell that the Pulaski Skyway, the “functionally obsolete” bridge in the Meadowlands, needs a billion-dollar renovation.
April 13, 2014Tough RoomMadison Square Park
Johnny Marx plays piano in Madison Square Park in Manhattan. Yes, he hauls in the piano every day. And no, he doesn’t move it by himself. (He has a friend with a truck.)
March 23, 2014Upstairs, Downstairs Midtown
Like the impossible staircases of M. C. Escher, the escalators at Trump Tower — Which is up? Where is down? — are endlessly mesmerizing.
March 16, 2014The Cloud Factory Alphabet City
On a cold day, the exhaust of the Consolidated Edison plant hangs in the air, creating a virtual microclimate over Alphabet City in Manhattan.
March 9, 2014The Mystery of ‘Shoefiti’ Bronx
These sneakers tossed over wires in the Bronx denote a) a crack den; b) loss of virginity; c) run-of-the-mill bullying; or d) the urban myth of your choice.
March 2, 2014Making Pasta For Passover Lower East Side
An employee packing cases of matzo farfel at the Streit matzo factory on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side. It is in full production in advance of Passover, which this year begins on April 14.
February 23, 2014Working It Manhattan
During Fashion Week, photographers all but transformed the media pit at the Creatures of the Wind show at Lincoln Center into a mosh pit.
February 16, 2014Wig Stock Brooklyn
The heads in the window at Wig Club on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn do not look this good all by themselves. Entering the frame at the right is the hand of the woman who grooms and coifs the hairpieces.
February 9, 2014Flock Together Central Park South
Pigeons huddled over a steaming manhole cover on Central Park South near Fifth Avenue on Tuesday. The birds frequently gather there to eat spilled feed from the horses, but it was too cold for carriage rides.
February 2, 2014Silent, Soft and Slow Harlem
Strolling through the intersection of 116th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard during last Tuesday evening’s snowstorm.
January 26, 2014Harbor Fog New York Harbor
By noon last Wednesday, most of the fog that enveloped New York City had burned off. Not so in New York Harbor, where the Staten Island Ferry was trudging south, silent except for the occasional fog horn.
January 19, 2014Night Lights for Buddhas Chinatown
A late-evening view into a second-story temple in Chinatown, on an otherwise dark Allen Street.
January 12, 2014The Torch View Liberty Island
A still from the CrownCam, part of EarthCam’s global network of fixed video cameras, and one of several of its webcams offering different perspectives of the Statue of Liberty. This image was captured at 8:03 a.m. on Jan. 2. For feeds: earthcam.com.
January 5, 2014Through the Rain Downtown Manhattan (From Brooklyn)
The artist and photographer Saul Leiter, who died last month, was famous for depicting New York scenes through streaked windows. Bryan Thomas had him in mind when he photographed downtown Manhattan from inside his car in Brooklyn Bridge Park on a recent night.
December 29, 2013The J Sleigh East Williamsburg
A view of the J train from the Flushing Avenue stop in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, during one of December’s many brief snowstorms.
December 22, 2013Windows Vista Kips Bay
After several weeks at his grandfather’s farm in Indiana, the photographer Victor Blue returned to New York and found himself awed by the Kips Bay Towers, I. M. Pei and S. J. Kessler’s Brutalist monument to urban density.
December 15, 2013Sunset, Parked Brooklyn
Driving past a cemetery in Brooklyn, Dave Sanders came upon a stunning view. He pulled over, took out his camera and climbed on the roof of his car to take this photograph. A police car pulled up as he was getting on top of his car. But instead of investigating the photographer, the officer took out a cellphone and took his own shot.
December 8, 2013California Dreamin’ Bronx
In the shadow of a subway trestle a few blocks from Yankee Stadium, Suzanne DeChillo stumbled upon a perfect Bronx afternoon. But to the local skateboarders, this spot known as Cali Park is pure West Coast.
December 1, 2013Great Minds Prospect Park
After finishing a photo assignment in Brooklyn early, Elizabeth D. Herman dashed to Prospect Park to spend the rest of an unseasonably warm Saturday in November with a book. She was, she quickly realized, not the only one with that idea.
November 24, 2013Aftermath Bushwick, Brooklyn
Days after the murders of three Iranian rock musicians in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the photographer Robert Stolarik was taken by how quickly the detritus of a crime scene merged with a makeshift stoop memorial.
November 13, 2013Jaws at Work Gowanus, Brooklyn
Every time he drives up Smith Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn, the photographer Dave Sanders is tempted to pull over to take a picture of Benson Scrap Metal, one of the remaining working scrapyards on the Gowanus Canal. On his way home late one night, he did, getting this shot from the sidewalk.
November 10, 2013On a Waterfront Central Park
The Central Park Reservoir, which the photographer Barton Silverman has long known to be a reliable location for a good sunset picture, also happens to be an ideal spot to put in some peaceful miles before the marathon.
November 3, 2013Stop-Time Elmhurst
Midday sun, with the harsh shadows it casts, is “usually not the best for photographers,” Kirsten Luce says. But to those waiting for the subway on an elevated platform, it was a perfectly welcome counterpoint to a brisk October breeze.
October 27, 2013Bird’s Eye East Midtown
Henry Jacobson was on the way to photograph a festival in Central Park, from the air, when he passed the Chrysler Building. “I held the camera out of the helicopter pointing straight down and shot this frame,” he recalled: an unusual perspective, and a reminder of the city’s grandeur.
October 20, 2013Cloistered Fort Tryon Park
The photographer Ruth Fremson visited the Cloisters museum in Fort Tryon Park on a September afternoon. “A place like the Cloisters always beckons to me at this time of year when the shadows get longer earlier and earlier in the day,” she said.
October 13, 2013Silhouettes Harlem
Nearly four years ago, in midwinter, Viviana Peretti knelt by a puddle in Harlem to see how the world looked upside-down on East 125th Street. The image she captured belongs to her series about “living alone together” in a city of eight million.
October 6, 2013Transported Hell's Kitchen
This is what a band wants to see from the stage. Photographing Walk the Moon at Terminal 5 in Manhattan last weekend, Elizabeth D. Herman turned around and found a more captivating subject: the young crowd. The indie rock group concurred, posting on its Web site: “Last night was a dream come true.”
September 29, 2013Stepping Out East Village
The photographer Sally Davies has been taking pictures from her East Village apartment window for years, a private respite from shooting on the street. One evening, she caught a woman standing in the doorway to a roof, seemingly ready to step out into the skyline to her north.
September 22, 2013A Memorial Seen Up Close Lower Manhattan
Each September, two columns of light pierce the sky above Lower Manhattan to memorialize the 9/11 attacks. “Tribute in Light” is now an expected, if fleeting, part of the skyline, reminding us what was lost. Less familiar is the scene at its base atop a downtown garage.
September 15, 2013Night Swimming Coney Island
The photographer Dave Sanders took to the surf on Coney Island last weekend, seeking night swimmers. “I was only able to get this shot by watching kids react when big waves rolled in,” he said. “I was depending on them to know when to hold my camera over my head.”
September 8, 2013Water View Astoria Park Pool
New Yorkers have been cooling off in Astoria Park Pool, the city’s largest, since 1936. “It feels more like a party than a public pool,” said the photographer Michael Kirby Smith, who took this picture in high summer. But the party’s over: the pool closes for the season on Monday.
September 1, 2013Aerial Symmetry Queensboro Bridge
Hurrying to the scene of a truck explosion on the Queensboro Bridge, Jabin Botsford noticed the passing Roosevelt Island tram. He climbed the pedestrian walkway fence for a clearer view and captured a car hanging between two islands, the river and the sky.
August 25, 2013Kind of Blue Midtown Manhattan
Driving around the city on a rainy day, the photographer Chang W. Lee noticed a group of people on Broadway between 31st and 32nd Streets, all wearing bright blue ponchos. He jumped out of his car to photograph them, then noticed the matching flip-flops. “I chased after the flippers,” he said. Then he lowered his camera to capture this image.
August 11, 2013Night Game Brooklyn Bridge Park
A soccer player warms up on Pier 5 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, overlooking the skyscrapers of downtown Manhattan. The recently built fields made it possible for Barton Silverman to capture this skyline view — and what he called “the unique pleasure of playing sports at night in New York.”
August 4, 2013Big Brother’s View Downtown Manhattan
The photographer Michael Kirby Smith long wondered what the city looked like from the perspective of the security cameras he sees everywhere. Visiting a Police Department facility downtown where officers monitor the new Domain Awareness System, developed with Microsoft, he found out.
July 28, 2013Sunday Greetings Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Jabin Botsford, a photographer new to the city, paused last Sunday to shoot shoppers on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He was struck by the friendliness of the scene, until an angry subject demanded he move along. Welcome to New York.
July 21, 2013Lincoln Abstract Lincoln Center
With recent renovations, Lincoln Center has added a splash of whimsy to its plazas. With his camera, Fred R. Conrad pulled off a similar trick: turning classicism into Cubism. A walkway separates the lawn atop Lincoln Ristorante from Henry Moore’s sculpture “Reclining Figure.”
July 14, 2013Facing Off Columbus Park
At Columbus Park in Chinatown on summer afternoons, every table is occupied with visitors engrossed in games of chance and skill. “I was definitely the odd man out,” The Times’s Damon Winter said after a recent visit, “but between the games and the music, no one seemed to care.”
July 7, 2013Above the Heat On a Flight Into La Guardia
The Times’s Todd Heisler took this photograph from the window of a recent commercial flight into La Guardia Airport. “A view like this is always a nice welcome home,” he said. “While it’s breathtaking at night, I feel like the gauziness of the summer haze captures the oppressive heat we’ve been having.”
June 30, 2013Taxis Only? Sixth Avenue in Manhattan
The Times’s Damon Winter took this photograph the other day. “On the ground, I can imagine how hectic it must be for this cyclist riding through traffic up Sixth Avenue,” he said of the scene, “but from the elevated vantage point of a nearby building, even New York City traffic takes on a certain order.”
June 23, 2013Heads Up Aboard a Tour Bus
Photographing from a tour bus deck gave Benjamin Norman a unique view of the city. One thing he didn’t expect was how close he came to streetlights; fellow passengers had to warn him to watch out as he took his shots. What else? “There was also a surprising amount of gum stuck to the signs,” he said.
June 16, 2013No Accident Manhattan Bridge
Niko Koppel of The New York Times was crossing the Manhattan Bridge when this scene stopped him: twisted metal, a smoking cab, the ruby and sapphire glow of a squad car. Passers-by asked what had happened. But no one was hurt. It was not a real crash, just Hollywood in town.
June 9, 2013Above the Traffic Williamsburg Bridge
Crossing the Williamsburg Bridge at rush hour is part business, part pleasure. Elizabeth D. Herman staked out the scene at sunset this week as, she said, “commuters and joggers basked in a bright orange glow, one that slowly faded to the lavender hues that accompany late spring twilights.”
June 2, 2013Waiting for It Hudson River Park
Out taking photographs on a May Monday that already felt like summer, Daniel Krieger came across this view in Hudson River Park just south of Pier 40. He liked the symmetry of the scene but thought it was missing something, he said, “so I waited on the shot, until a jogger came by to complete it.”
May 26, 2013A Track Away, a Parallel World Manhattan
Two trains leave a station at the same time. How long does it take a passenger to notice the scene across the way? In this image, Victor J. Blue tried to recreate the feeling, he said, “when the loneliness and the shared experience of life in the city combine into one familiar and disquieting feeling.”
May 19, 2013The Night Rush Becomes a Dance Chinatown
Photographing the cooks at Big Wong Restaurant in Chinatown this spring, Victor J. Blue captured that moment, he recalled, when “the choreography of chaos, of steaming noodles and sauté pans and glazed duck on the chopping block all comes together to fill orders coming in, orders out.”
May 12, 2013Bird’s-Eye View Coney Island
Visiting Coney Island, Brooklyn, at sunrise last month, Michael Kirby Smith wanted to photograph a group of seagulls from the perspective of the flock. It was a team effort: He stalked the birds with his camera ready while a friend lured them with bread.
May 5, 2013Skyscrapers, Inches High Manhattan Skyline (in Queens)
What photographer can resist a glittering skyline? Not Tony Cenicola, who captured this twist on a postcard view of Manhattan at the Queens Museum of Art’s Panorama, the nearly 10,000-square-foot model of the five boroughs, created for the 1964 World’s Fair.
April 28, 2013Night Blooms 9/11 Memorial
Fred R. Conrad used a long exposure and a hand-held flash to photograph the Survivor Tree at the 9/11 Memorial. “I must have looked like a madman running around the tree firing my strobe into its branches,” he said. “Such is spring in New York.”
April 21, 2013In the Moment High Street, Brooklyn
Victor J. Blue took this picture from the front car of a C train as it pulled into the High Street station in Brooklyn. “Under the streets of the city we barrel in and out of tunnels,” he said, but — as the reflection shows — “we still manage to carve out moments of quiet, to pause and read and reflect.”
April 14, 2013Down Under Manhattan Bridge
Driving through Brooklyn last month, Michael Kirby Smith caught this view of the Manhattan Bridge through a rainy car window. “The city reveals itself in a very fragmented way,” he said, “resulting in random, unexpected moments when you notice its presence.”
April 7, 2013Tight Spot Bushwick
What better place for a bicycle race than a vacant church in Bushwick, Brooklyn? Julie Glassberg captured the crowds and crashes on March 23. “The riders wanted to pick up speed,” she said, “but the track was so small and the turns so sharp that quite a lot were ejected off to the side.”
March 31, 2013Surviving Winter 10th Avenue in Manhattan
Spring is here, but snowstorms are a favorite time for Librado Romero to get out and shoot — and at night, all the better. “The snow adds texture and movement, like a painting,” he said of this January picture from 10th Avenue in Manhattan. “The lone figure surrounded by the light-show becomes a symbol of the survivor.”
March 24, 2013Aftermath Greenwood Heights
Hurricane Sandy toppled monuments and shattered trees at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The photographer Fred R. Conrad stopped in earlier this winter to see how the cleanup was going. “It’s one of the places where the history of New York is most evident,” he said, “and I was worried for it.”
March 17, 2013Boom With a View Riverdale
Palisade Avenue in Riverdale, with views of the Hudson River peeking through the trees, is like a country lane that got lost in the Bronx. But sometimes the best vista isn’t the most obvious one, as Librado Romero found this winter when he turned his camera up to capture a tree trimmer at work.
March 10, 2013Rear View Jersey City
Richard Perry, like most people, associates the Statue of Liberty with sweeping postcard views of New York Harbor and the Manhattan skyline. So it was a special treat for him to photograph this tree-lined perspective from Jersey City.
March 3, 2013Learning to Skate Battery Park City
When Suzanne DeChillo photographed the rink in Battery Park City this month, she remembered what a gift ice can be to a child. For adults, it’s another story. “Mommy, why aren’t you skating?” a little one asked. “Because I will fall,” replied a voice from the bench.
February 24, 2013Across the River Manhattan Skyline
There’s no better time to take pictures than just before and just after sunrise, the photographer Librado Romero says, which is what brought him from the Bronx to Weehawken, N.J., at dawn recently to capture this classic view of Manhattan.
February 17, 2013The Vista Below Lower East Side
A group of Hare Krishnas congregates on Friday nights in the Delancey Street/Essex Street subway station on the Lower East Side. The photographer Michael Kirby Smith captured the scene from the opposite platform in February as commuters watched and walked by.
February 10, 2013Gray and Gold Midtown Manhattan
Driving into Manhattan on a foggy morning, Tony Cenicola of The New York Times saw the city spread beneath him like a Turner painting. He couldn’t pull out his camera, but he recreated the mood of that moment in this image captured from the roof of the Times Building in Midtown.
February 3, 2013Winter Garden Bryant Park
Late on a winter afternoon, on a day that saw snow flurries, a woman relaxed at a cafe table in Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan.
January 27, 2013