We’re glad it’s over, grasping at hope that 2024 will be better in New York and the world. Here are some faces of New York City in 2023.

October 12: 5 days after the Hamas attack on Israel, Jewish students held a silent vigil for the victims of the attack and the hostages on the Columbia University campus. The photograph shows a young man named Ilan Fiorentino who was killed in the attack.

Also on October 12, on the other side of Butler Library at Columbia University, pro-Palestinian students held a rally at the same time as the silent vigil opposite them. Many demonstrators covered their faces. There was no mention of Hamas.

October 31: the annual Greenwich Village Halloween parade

November 5: a jubilant runner spots his friends on entering Central Park near the finish line of the New York Marathon.

November 23: Spectators at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade react as a float passes on Central Park West

He’s not from New York, but this tuba player from Alabama became part of New York for a day when his university band was selected to march in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

December 23: In front of Trump Tower, man named Neil who has made his living for the past six years doing impersonations of Donald Trump had to take off his mask to do emergency repair of the nose.

Two days before Christmas, many parents took their children to Rockefeller Center to see the Christmas tree. Some were warmly dressed and their parents bought them treats…

… and other children accompanied their mothers who sell balloons and cotton candy on the street to the more fortunate children.