Shabazz Modern Barber Salon, located at Malcolm X Boulevard and 116th Street in Harlem, is a neighborhood institution. Regular customers stop by frequently to for a variety of stylings, including a traditional straight razor cut, doled out by owner Karim Hasan. Photos by Latima Stephens.

Zara Katz, a freelance photo editor and teaching assistant at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, joins one of the school’s photojournalism classes as students practice shooting a weather feature at Bryant Park in Manhattan on April 29, 2013. Photo by Skyler Reid.

Venus fly-traps, a type of orchid, for sale at the Blooms on Broadway Orchid Exposition on Feb. 24. The show featured more than 500 varieties of orchids and rare plants for sale. Photos by Emily Field.

Protesters gather with signs and banners, wearing the signature red pigtails of the Wendy’s chain’s mascot, near a midtown Wendy’s restaurant to urge the company to sign on to the Fair Food Agreement. The agreement would help guarantee fair wages for low-level farm workers that produce much of the food used by fast food restaurants. Photos by Agata Blaszczak-Boxe.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz welcomed Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to Brooklyn for the first time ever underneath the Brooklyn Bridge on March 20. Markowitz declared the day ‘Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Day.’ Nearby, PETA protested the circus, accusing them of abusing elephants.

Photos by Ann Marie Awad