chris rubino

These lights get me every year, I was in Brooklyn on Sept 11 2001. This year i found myself downtown seeing the lights then heading back to Brooklyn really very much being taken by them from my block, a similar view to the one I had 11 years ago.

chris rubino

This Precarious situation was shot in Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York to me still feels like it has a bit of that wild side that most of the states left behind in the 70s. It just felt like one of those moments that make me happy to be able to walk around streets of this city.

Sarah Tuft

I like these photos because they remind me of why I feel alienated in Long Beach, NY. As a 9/11 volunteer who eventually wrote a play that I used to raise funds for charity, the use of the American flag as a symbol of hope now rings hollow for me. Where once I saw resilience (and all the other cliches) now I see willful ignorance and an American sense of entitlement so pervasive, even victims complain they didn't get enough despite having voted to slash federal aid. The same people who cry "Rebuild" and "We Shall Overcome" are now burning Christmas lights, using way too many plastic bags and idling in their SUVs - oblivious to the climate change that contributed to the disastrous storm surge of Sandy. I moved to Long Beach this spring after NYC out-priced me in a year of unemployment, only to be displaced by Sandy. I suggest they rebuild people's brains and then maybe their towns.

Jeffery Holmen

I, took this picture, while on the "C" train. Because, I'v been breast fed this photo really resonated with me. I like the way the mother cratles the baby
; you can see the love of mother and nature.

Sarah Tuft

I like these photos because they remind me of why I feel alienated in Long Beach, NY. As a 9/11 volunteer who eventually wrote a play that I used to raise funds for charity, the use of the American flag as a symbol of hope now rings hollow for me. Where once I saw resilience (and all the other cliches) now I see willful ignorance and an American sense of entitlement so pervasive, even victims complain they didn't get enough despite having voted to slash federal aid. The same people who cry "Rebuild" and "We Shall Overcome" are now burning Christmas lights, using way too many plastic bags and idling in their SUVs - oblivious to the climate change that contributed to the disastrous storm surge of Sandy. I moved to Long Beach this spring after NYC out-priced me in a year of unemployment, only to be displaced by Sandy. I suggest they rebuild people's brains and then maybe their towns.

Phil Gerstein

A sunset in early December, taken from the Piermont Pier in Piermont, NY. That's Tallman State Park in the background.

Mike Storey

This was a karate battle I chanced upon in Brooklyn. It didn't end well.

Jordan Alazruei

I took this while in the Newark Museum's East Asia exhibit, specifically the Buddhist temple area. It was incredibly peaceful and beautifully decorated. Go check it out!

I think I captured the mood of the room well in my picture, and I tried to only edit slightly (all on my phone) to get it to fit what I remember from the day.

Phil Gerstein

Caught this beautiful sunset while standing on the Piermont Pier in Piermont, NY. That's Tallman State Park in the background

Irene Smith

This picture was taken on 8th Avenue between 14th and 15th Street on November 7, 2012. I was on my way into work for the first time after hurricane. I took the picture because I was shocked at the extent of the damage to this building. I have hundreds of pictures on my phone, but this is one of the few that is actually "newsworthy"

Jordan Alazruei

This photo was taken during one of the usual pre-game parades leading up to a New York Red Bulls soccer match. It was taken specifically while crossing the bridge between Newark and Harrison, NJ. I took it because I love the festivities that take place before every game, the club bars in the area, and the rambunctious parades leading into the arena.

I like the framing of the shot and how I got the smoke trails from the flares in, and I think for a picture taken on my crumby "smart" phone, it came out great.

Brian Brownworth

Horse Park.
This photo was taken in Staten Island in an area where people go to ride horses towards the south end of the island. I saw several people bring their horses to the area so they can stretch their legs and run with other horses. While the horses run around and play with each other like dogs would do in a dog park, their owners sit in the chairs left in the area and talk about the horses and other topics.

louis lim

This was taken after Sandy in Downtown Brooklyn, on Jay St. and Tillary. The main thing that i still remember was how eerily silent the neighborhood was. Also, I never realized how big traffic lights actually are. Something mundane transforms into an amazing object when you realize its scale.

Michael McHale

This photo was taken with my cell phone (a Samsung Galaxy S3) on a trip my wife and I took to Iceland in September.

I think what is newsworthy - from my perspective, anyway - is the astonishing quality of cell-phone photography these days. This photo hasn't been altered or retouched or even filtered in any way. It's straight from the camera.

Debbie Meyer

My son, age 7.5, a young white boy in Central Harlem wanted something shaved in his head. If Arizona got the the final 4, we promised him he could get the logo. When they didn't one day on the train he asked if the Knick win, can he get a Knicks logo in his head. He whole train smiled when I said yes. On Monday, before the election, he asked if he could get an Obama Logo whether he won or not, and I said "yes". We went to our local barber in Saturday after the election.

Larissa Zimberoff

I took this photo from the 2nd floor of IKEA in Redhook. I loved the sunset and the crane (which reminded me of the port of Oakland). I wanted to be sure to include the striped lines from the parking lot– I didn't understand why there were so many but I liked them. Last, I liked that there was a bit of reflection in the shot, enough to make it feel like it might have been double-exposed.

Danielle Levanas

Lines at a gas station on Friday Nov. 7th. I took this while walking from Red Hook (where I live) to Crown Heights (where a friend who had a car with gas lived) on my way out of the city for the North American Drama Therapist Association's annual conference on trauma. Only way I was able to get out of the city. The walk took me through Brooklyn and made me see the neighborhoods in a new light.

Danielle Levanas

Sitting in Dojo in the Village, broken down and exhausted, I was watching freezing rain turn into snow on Nov. 7th. This was what I called the "sucker punch storm." After Sandy passed through, power came back in lower Manhattan just in time for this Nor'easter. people without electricity and heat still had to deal with even colder temperatures. It was devastating. And the photo is also beautiful... shows the dissonance and duality of live in NYC. also the rough survival spirit of New Yorkers.

Jake Miller

A still from a video I took of a bull slaughter for a wedding feast outside of Parika, Guyana. After seeing this, maybe we shouldn't eat meat as regularly as we do.

Alison

Make art, not war. Graffiti on Mott Street in Nolita.