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Best of 2015

Posted on December 29, 2015 by deborahshapiro

Looking over 2015, here are my personal favorites.

The lead runners near the 23 mile mark on Fifth Avenue in the New York Marathon. Biwott went on to win.

Cheering the runners in the New York Marathon in Central Park

42nd Street

A mass selfie in Times Square

Olympic gold medalist Kayla Harrison defeating her Cuban opponent at the New York Open Judo Championship in the first-ever women’s competition at the New York Athletic Club. First-ever appearance by Cuban athletes.

Lion dancer celebrating the Lunar New Year on Mott Street, Chinatown

No Photography Allowed! (Picasso exhibit at Museum of Modern Art)

Union Square at dusk

The view from the new Whitney Museum

Male snow leopard in the Central Park Zoo

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Christmas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted on December 21, 2015 by deborahshapiro

The Baroque Neapolitan creche at the foot of the tree

The Christmas tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Bright Lights, Big City

Posted on December 13, 2015 by deborahshapiro

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Wishing everyone a joyous holiday season.

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Late Afternoon, Central Park

Posted on December 9, 2015 by deborahshapiro

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Autumn in December. This magnificent beech tree near 5th Avenue and 98th Street is still in leaf.

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Fourth Night of Hanukkah

Posted on December 9, 2015 by deborahshapiro

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Rockefeller Center Promenade

Posted on December 8, 2015 by deborahshapiro

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The Night before Thanksgiving

Posted on November 25, 2015 by deborahshapiro

Inflating a Power Ranger balloon

Mayor deBlasio and Macy’s CEO

Police Commissioner Bratton

Ready to go

Enchantment

What is New York City’s favorite ritual on the night before Thanksgiving? It’s watching the inflation of the balloons for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It’s a huge operation that takes hours and delights countless children who watch heaps of plastic grow into gigantic, colorful figures like Sponge Bob and Ronald MacDonald. This year, Mayor Bill deBlasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton held a press conference to assure New Yorkers and the nation that tomorrow’s parade will be a safe one. Two NYPD helicopters circled overhead, perhaps sending a mixed message.

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Twilight on the Upper West Side

Posted on November 23, 2015 by deborahshapiro

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iPhone photo, Broadway and 80th Street

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Procession of the Animals

Posted on October 4, 2015 by deborahshapiro

Every year for St. Francis Day, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine holds a special service for the blessing of the animals. Any animals – dogs, cats, lizards, alpacas, hawks, and rabbits. People can bring their pets and attend the service, and an animal sanctuary from upstate New York sends rescue animals that it has rehabilitated. This year, a camel and a tortoise were among the visitors.

The congregation

An owl waits to enter the cathedral

Led by a service dog, the animals enter the cathedral

Led by a service dog, the animals begin the procession

The entry of the camel

An alpaca and a camel wait for their blessing

The bishop blesses every animal in the procession

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New Yorkers Welcome Pope Francis

Posted on September 25, 2015 by deborahshapiro

A young admirer

Extraordinary security

Central Park made into a security fortress

Central Park converted into a security fortress

Central Park West, shut down

Pope Francis made a procession through Central Park in his Popemobile today to the delight of 80,000 people who won tickets in a lottery, then passed through metal detectors and waited on their feet for up to 8 hours for his arrival. The park was completely surrounded by an 8-foot fence. Sanitation trucks and police vehicles closed off all of the surrounding streets. The Secret Service, NYPD, snipers on rooftops, and antiterrorism squads were everywhere and two helicopters kept pace with the procession overhead – one low and one high. Some wondered whether this unprecedented show of security was perhaps excessive to protect the man of peace who came to New York and won the people’s hearts in just one day.

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