Matt, 21, Canada, Lover of Jen, News Junkie, Aspiring Journalist/Photojournalist /Archivist, Simpsons nerd, Opinionated curmudgeon.
Some of the photographs I post are not my own, and they are copyrighted by their respective photographers. I will cite and source every photograph I find that isn't mine. This isn't a commercial/profit blog, I do not make any money from this blog. I post photographs I like and am inspired by to show to my followers, in the hopes that they like them and are inspired by them as well. I do not wish to profit or gain from posting others' works.
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Police arrest a man, identified by the New York Post as 30-year-old Nieem Davis, in connection with the shoving death of a Queens resident on Monday. (Photo: WNBC TV via The New York Daily News)
Fashionistas pose for photographs in front of a homeless man outside Moynihan station following a showing of the Rag & Bone spring/summer 2013 collection during New York fashion week. (September 8, 2012)
Photo: Lucas Jackson/REUTERS
Inside Metropolitan Opera House, New York City November 28, 1937; pianist Josef Hofmann.
Cars floating in a flooded parking garage entrance, on October 30, 2012 in the Financial District of New York.
Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images
Blackout conditions in Manhattan, after Hurricane Sandy hit, on October 29, 2012.
Photo: Allison Joyce/Getty Images
Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point is shown in the New York City borough of Queens, on October 30, 2012. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire, but they are still fighting some pockets of fire.
Photo: Frank Franklin II/Associated Press
Telephoto shot of the crane collapse at West 57th Street in New York City, taken through a telescope.
Photo via @cmwdotme
Another shot of that crane collapse at West 57th Street/7th Ave in Manhattan.
NYPD and emergency services are currently on route.
Photo via: alec_coughlin
Evidence of the strong winds currently hitting the East Coast of the US.
Partial crane collapse at West 57th Street and 7th Ave in New York City.
Photo via NBC
Studio of SNL during a dress rehearsal on October 6, 2012. Studio 8H in 30 Rockefeller Plaza has been the home of the show since it’s inception in 1975.
Photograph: Karsten Moran for The New York Times
The Simpsons reference George Tooker’s “The Subway” (1950)
Season 24, Episode 1 (September 30, 2012)
Rufus Wainwright
2010
New York City
Photograph by Matthias Clamer for Q Magazine
According to the photographer, this was taken about a week or so after his mother, Kate McGarrigle, had passed away. “The mood was very somber [..] he played the piano through most of the shoot.” It was shot at Steinway Hall on 57th Street.