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Marathon runners make their way onto the Queensboro Bridge as a 7 train waits in the station above

Liza Eckert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:58:46 +0000

They then ran through Manhattan and the Bronx before finishing in Central Park.

A bulldog dressed as the Naked Cowboy chews on a toy guitar during the Halloween Harvest Festival canine costume contest. The festival was held in Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City

Liza Eckert — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:39:44 +0000

Sparks fly as Primnath Singh, also known as Brady, works on a car in Maven Motors, an auto body shop in Jamaica, Queens

Rachel Geizhals — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:31:52 +0000

Brady said work as a mechanic is more tedious than it used to be, because it is mostly maintenance, like oil changes and inspections. Fewer drivers come in now for elective body work.

For more information and photographs, go to The End of Conspicuous Consumption.

A snowstorm in the northeastern United States shuts down New York City public schools and disrupts travel

Sebastian Bednarski — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:09:19 +0000

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

Kristen Joy Watts — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:13:07 +0000

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.

Obama campaign volunteer Elaine Joseph prepares to post a sign in the window of a restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens, on October 29, 2008

Kristen Joy Watts — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:42:09 +0000

Joseph and other members of Forest Hills for Obama, a grassroots group, pooled money to buy signs, flyers and buttons to promote their candidate in New York and in Scranton, Pa., where they traveled several times during the campaign season.

Nelson’s mural

Clark Merrefield — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:54:39 +0000

Near the Sunnyside-Woodside border in Queens.