February 2009 archives

Alfonso Gonzalez, originally of Mexico, looks over his adopted home of Queens while on the 7 train platform on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009.

Gonzalez is a day laborer who is suffering from the lack of work available to immigrants.  Click here to watch American Dream Delayed, an audio slideshow on Latinos in Queens who are struggling to find work.

Patrons and barbers ham it up for the camera at the Rome Style Barber Shop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Alex Eisenstein, 18, attended NYC Comic Con dressed as a character from World of Warcraft.

Click here for a slideshow of other costumes comic book fans donned for the annual convention.

A New York police officer works crowd control on 40th St. near 8th Ave. in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009.

An empty briefcase was left outside the Garment Center Congregation synagogue and was called in as a possible bomb.

Police officers and the bomb squad gather on 40th St. after a bomb scare this morning.