Merrick, Long Island. Sept. 2011
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September 22, 2011
September 20, 2011
August 25, 2011
August 23, 2011
August 22, 2011
Indian Day Parade 2011
Members of St. Margaret Mary’s Church make their way down Madison Ave in Midtown Manhattan during the Indian Day Parade on Sunday August 21, 2011.
August 18, 2011
Howard Beach
I spent the afternoon in Queens for a feature on the changing face of Howard Beach. The area’s commercial strip is primarily occupied by a number of small businesses along with a smattering of newer franchised stores. Howard Beach possesses a suburban, ‘old New York’ quality that seems to be quickly fading between gentrification and the slow corporate takeover of New York neighborhoods. The multimillion dollar Resorts World Casino will be completed in Fall 2011 and will share real estate with Aqueduct Racetrack only a few suburban blocks from the heart of Howard Beach. Resorts World will inevitably encourage tourism and promote new business which could create a potential shift in the area’s business culture and neighborhood dynamics.
PETCO exterior.
Nick Beneduce, 39 of Howard Beach received a tattoo from Alex Yonta at Crossbay Tattoo. Mr. Beneduce’s tattoo was in honor of his son Jonathan who was murdered in Teaneck, NJ in early 2010.
Resorts World Casino administrative offices.
Aqueduct Racetrack entrance.
Rose Presta, 60 of Franklin Square, Queens at Sugar Sun Bake Shop on Crossbay Blvd.
August 17, 2011
August 8, 2011
Staten Island
Staten Island Ferry.
Staten Island Yankees vs. Brooklyn Cyclones.
Entrance to Richmond County Bank Ballpark.
August 4, 2011
August 3, 2011
re-entering the ring
I started my re-entry into the world of professional wrestling. I spent Saturday night with the fellas in Paramus, NJ at an East Coast Professional Wrestling event. Every venue is different from the last: the space, the lighting, the roster. However it is familiar enough that it can be a big challenge to create something new and interesting. Here are a few frames from this past weekend:
Kekoa “The Flyin’ Hawaiian” brushes his hair moments before his match.
Wrestler Timothy Plazma moments before his tag team match with wrestling partner Crowbar.
Crazy Ivan (orange) and Tony “Fugetaboutit” Fiore (red) wrestle for ECPW Championship.
JC Westler gathers his thoughts before an interview backstage before his match.
August 2, 2011
August 1, 2011
August 1, 2011
The battle for same-sex marriage
Will Beirne-Freiman, 2, of Sunnyside, Queens celebrates same-sex marriage with his family outside of City Clerks Clerks office on Sunday July 24, 2011, the first day that same-sex couples were granted the right to marry in New York State.
Connie Kurtz (center) and Ruthie Berman (left) celebrate same-sex marriage outside of the City Clerks office.
Robert Lassegue, 41, (Left) and Jose Manuel Reyes, 32, Westbury, long Island (Right) are married by Reverend Pat Bumgardner just outside the City Clerks Office.
We do!
Enrique Castro, 29 (left) and Wilson Castillo, 22 (right) both of Washington Heights were previously married in Connecticut but traveled down to the City Clerk’s office to support New York State’s Marriage Equality Act. They two plan on a New York wedding in early January 2012.
Geanette Coleman (left) and Kawane Harris (right) both of Midtown Manhattan pose for portraits.
God loves equality.
Ken fleck, 33, of Freehold, NJ demonstrates outside of the City Clerks office.
Ben Phelps, 36 of Topeka, Kansas demonstrates outside of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office in Midtown Manhattan: “Today is the first day they are having f-g marriages and they don’t have any truth or moral authority … We are here to tells Gods truth.”
Rabbi Mordechai Weberman, 68, of Williamsburg, Brooklyn:
“We are here to protest against the scandal of the legislative vote.”
Pat Necrerato, 40 of Freehold, NJ with Bible in hand demonstrates across the street from City Clerks office.
Adriana Knight, 35, Park Slope BK waves a Rainbow flag outside of the City Clerks office.
July 28, 2011
Leslie Robertson - WTC Structual Engineer
“Leslie Robertson was the engineering whiz kid whose innovations helped erect the 110-story towers. And when his buildings were savagely attacked and collapsed, taking close to 3,000 lives, he felt a shock and horror that is a structural engineer’s worst nightmare … Having poured more than 40 years of his life into the construction and maintenance of the original World Trade Center, Robertson — among the last surviving creators of the iconic complex — has spent the past 10 years trying to accept the 9/11 terrorist attacks as part of “the risk that we all take” just being alive.”
“And while the darkest day in New York history brought down his towers, one of the successor buildings will give him perhaps some measure of symbolic redemption on those sacred 16 acres. His firm, Leslie E. Robertson Associates, is the structural engineer firm for Four World Trade Center, the 72-story tower rising next to where the Twin Towers stood. Though Robertson himself is not working on the project (he retired in 1996, but remains a self-described workaholic), he offers guidance to his team.”
Excerpted from Towering Comeback written by amNewYork Editors Rolando Pujol and Graham Wood.
Leslie Robertson in his office in Lower Manhattan a few blocks from the World Trade Center.
Leslie Robertson on the WTC site with 1 World Trade (left) and 7 World Trade (right) behind him.
During an interview with amNewYork, Leslie Robertson described the range of emotions he experienced after learning of the attack on the World Trade Center which he helped build roughly 40 years earlier. “I had a lot of time to think about it, and I tried to sort it out in my mind if there was something I should have done that I didn’t,” Robertson said. “I couldn’t come up with anything … I mean, you can always make a building stronger.”
July 22, 2011
Changing notes. Changing trains.
Jafari Sampson, 16 of the Bronx plays his violin on the express platform at 34th Street/7th Ave stop in Midtown Manhattan as a rider examines a subway map.
Mr. Sampson has been playing violin for roughly 6 years and of playing in the subway he says “It tends to get really quiet when I start to play … I think that playing classical music is better for the community as it creates a peaceful aura.”
