Brian O'Halloran

'5th Ave on a Tuesday morning at 9'- I took this the morning Sandy hit, at 22nd and 5th around 9am. I had wanted to get on my bicycle and head downtown to see what NYC looked like after the worst natural disaster in its history. As you can tell by the pic the whole ride, and the city itself was pretty surreal that morning.

John Hankinson

The Edge at a U2 concert in Philladelphia.
I took 10 or 11 pictures with my phone and without my glasses had no idea if they were any good, but was surprised at what a good picture my (new at the time) iphone took.

Polly Bookhout

I was walking west on 56th Street from Ninth Avenue and saw this exuberant display of joy and individuality last November.

tina osterhoudt

Tkane on !4th St in Park Slope Brooklyn. It's a cute flyer. The best one I've seen thus far. I hope they found Captain Strong.

tina osterhoudt

This was taken in South Slope, Brooklyn at one of the parks. I like the poster. More importantly the idea behind the poster. It was encouraging people to strike, create solidarity, to demonstrate their power.

Rocco S. Cetera

Photo by Rocco S. Cetera
Tudor City, New York City, May 31, 2012 8:10 PM

I always wanted to see Manhattanhenge. I had always heard of it. I went to the overpass on 42nd Street, all the way on the east side of Manhattan in Tudor City.

I had to come back a few times. The first time, just as the sun was in alignment, a cloud in NJ blocked the view. However, I came back the next day and the sun shined through!

I took many photos with my DSLR, but I love the way my IPhone flared the rays of the sun.

Cheryl McFeely

I was visiting relatives in Lancaster, PA., on Sunday, the day before Hurricane Sandy. I rushed home to Brooklyn as friends were recommending. This was an ominous sky on an ordinary day in a very repetitive looking neighborhood.

Bari Reiter

I took this photo while cleaning up in New Dorp, Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy.

Cheryl McFeely

I was delivering hot food to a nursing home in Seagate, a gated community at the western tip of Coney Island, Brooklyn. After talking with a woman named Daniele, a long time resident who was coordinating a lot of the relief to her neighborhood, she took us on a short tour of the area. The streets were deep in sand, the houses on the beach were completely off their foundations and the beach club pictured was compelling in its destruction but also so colorful bathed in sunlight like it would be on an ordinary day before the storm.

C SPREIZER

I took this photo in Kew Gardens after Hurricane Sandy. Nature's decay, beauty, and destruction in full view.

Inti

Walking east on W45th Street I couldn't help but laugh and wonder why the sign reads "MILF PLAZA." Turn out it's the Milford Plaza Hotel with a three letters out. Coincidence?

Everyone knows what a MILF is now-a-days. I thought it was funny so I kept it on my phone.

Kate Conway

Thanksgiving, Sandy Relief: Coney Island
HELP IS DESPERATELY - needed and you may donate money material items or physical efforts, to OWS efforts in the following ways:

1. Go to http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/ and find out how you can help by donating your time with feet on the ground, or material items that they ensure will get to the places needed most.

2. Can't help out on the ground - donate whatever funding https://www.wepay.com/donations/occupy-sandy-cleanup-volunteers you can here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45329774@N00/sets/

Kate Conway

11/18/12 - Rockaways
HELP IS DESPERATELY - needed and you may donate money material items or physical efforts, to OWS efforts in the following ways:

1. Go to http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/ and find out how you can help by donating your time with feet on the ground, or material items that they ensure will get to the places needed most.

2. Can't help out on the ground - donate whatever funding https://www.wepay.com/donations/occupy-sandy-cleanup-volunteers you can here.

Frank Fakir

This is the 2nd picture I took on November 2nd. 2012 few days after Sandy hit lower Manhattan. This one was taken in the back garage of 85 Broad Street. New York City. The 3000 lbs. Cars Look like toys on that day. Look at the gasoline fuel on the floor.

Frank Fakir

This picture was taken on Nov. 2nd. In the back by the garage of 85 Broad street in lower Manhattan just few days after Sandy hit New York City. I took it because I could not believe how 3000 lbs. Cars could look like toys as you see the cleaning workers. Look at the car gasoline on the floor.

Caroline Campion

(I know no kids but I think this one tells a story): On an Indian Summer day in late September, my husband and I made a spontaneous decision to take our kids for one last fling on the Jersey Shore. We spent the day in Ocean Grove and then walked the boardwalk all the way to Asbury Park. The photo is of my 9 year old daughter Belle playing in the sand. I love how the breeze suddenly kicked up her hair as I took the photo and how it captures a perfectly imperfect moment, only one month before Sandy struck and changed everything. That is how I'd like to remember that place and hopefully see it return.

Giles Clarke

Kissam Avenue, Staten Island.
This is all that is left of a house after 'Sandy'. When the storm hit, 14 feet of water took all the houses on Kissam Drive off their foundations. I took this 3 days after 'Sandy' and though a scene of terrible destruction, I see this stairway as a small symbol of hope.

Giles Clarke

On Kissam Drive, Staten Island.
I went to Staten Island two days after 'Sandy' and made my way to the South East shore. Nowhere had been more devastated than Kissam Drive. Pictured here is Pedro Correa who stands on his doorstep looking at what is left of his house. Pedro was lucky to have even been standing there as he'd been swept out to sea on his roof! and only got back by jumping over fields of debris. I send this picture to highlight the resilience of those who are now re-building. They must not be forgotten.

Farrish Carter

This summer I was fortunate enough to be in Seattle as the gay marriage movement reached its peak. This is from a gay marriage rally at the Space Needle in July--I saw this sweet young couple, so full of hope--and had to photograph them.

Karen Terpstra

The corner of Ocean Avenue and Atlantic Avenue across the street from the beach in Long Branch, NJ. Sandy's sand spread deep and wide.