November 2008 archives

This Keith Haring-inspired balloon made its debut at the Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 27, 2008.

 The balloon made its way down Broadway to the official review stand in front of Macy’s on 34th Street.

The Pond at Bryant Park

People skate their way into the holiday season on Thanksgiving Eve on The Pond at Bryant Park.

Matthew Nichols plays guitar at Union Square

Nichols, a busker, is currently working on a book called Underground: My Life as a New York City Subway Musician.

Record turnouts had many voters in the city waiting up to two hours to vote

Andrew Lutsky reads The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture while waiting in line to cast his ballot for Ralph Nader outside William Alexander School in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn on Election Day.

Barack Obama supporters celebrate the president-elect's victory on Nov. 4 at Solomon's Porch in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

A new day at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Amid extensive renovation projects of the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s historic structures, energy efficient buildings like this are being built.  Wind turbines and rooftop solar panels symbolize the green future of one of Brooklyn’s last remaining industrial zones.

Manuel Williams of Canarsie, Brooklyn celebrates at Solomon's Porch in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn as President-elect Barack Obama takes the stage in Chicago for his victory speech on Nov. 4, 2008

Regina Strachan, 69, waited to vote at a Prospect Heights, Brooklyn elementary school on election day 2008

She was reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, the first book in her women’s literature course.

Voters wait in long lines in Park Slope, Brooklyn

By 6:30 this morning, the line at J.H.S 51 stretched halfway around the block.

Willie Colon waves at the spectators lining Court Square in Long Island City during the New York City Marathon