The empty massive NYCHA Prospect Plaza housing project complex in the OceanHill-Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York on Sunday, May 19, 2013. RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: lrphotos076714
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May 13
Zombiepocalypse in Brooklyn
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May 13
Recent Trips to the Bronx
Members of the Bronx River Alliance and supporters participate in canoe races in the Bronx River in the New York borough of The Bronx on Saturday, May 11, 2013 during the 14th Annual Bronx River Flotilla. The group, consisting of experienced and inexperienced canoers, raced their canoes in Starlight Park on the formerly polluted waterway. The Bronx River Alliance hosts ecological water and land events along the river. RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: lrphotos076594
We have to admit that the whole idea for this post revolves around something we recently read. Of course just because we read it recently doesn’t mean it was written recently. The question that arises occasionally is why is The Bronx called The Bronx? All the other boroughs don’t have a “the” in front of their names so why does the Bronx (or maybe The Bronx)? And on top of that, just so you don’t think that this blog posting is going to consist of The Bronx bashing, the above bucolic setting is the The Bronx River, right in the middle of an industrial area. Continue reading →
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May 13
Pictures of the Week: Exorcism at the Ghost Fair
A devotee who is believed to be possessed by evil spirits shouts slogans as she runs in a state of trance around the courtyard of Guru Deoji Maharaj temple during a ghost fair at Malajpur village in Betul district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh January 27, 2013. DANISH SIDDIQUI/REUTERS/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: rtrlfive720993
Each week for our Pictures of the Week series, we focus on a collection of images from one of our partners. We love having the series and being able to highlight specific content collections. This week we’re featuring a picture package and a guest blog from our partners at Reuters. You can see more images from Reuters back at Newscom. But check out this fun blog on an annual ghost fair held near the end of January in a small village in India.
See more pictures from this package back at Newscom. Continue reading →
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May 13
We’d like to live here … or maybe there
Visitors to Grand Central Terminal stand in awe at Target’s two-story, 1,540 square foot “dollhouse” constructed in Vanderbilt Hall on Monday, May 6, 2013. The house includes full size rooms filled with Target products promoting their “Threshold” line of home goods. The promotional stunt will only be there for two days when it will be disassembled with all the products being donated to charity. RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: lrphotos076427
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Apr 13
Life on the Water and More
Canoers paddle the polluted inland waterway, the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn in New York, on Saturday, October, 2, 2010. FRANCES M. ROBERTS/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: lrphotos065135
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Apr 13
Guest Blog: Ed Begley Jr.’s Green Home
Ed Begley Jr arrives on his bike at the construction site of his new home. He and his wife Rachelle Carson-Begley are building their new house under LEED Platinum Certified standards in an attempt to become one of North America’s greenest, most sustainable homes. Peter Bennett/Ambient Images/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: ambphotos006540
Building one of the greenest homes in North America is no easy task, but if there is one person who is up for it, it would be Ed Begley Jr. His Green credentials go back to the first Earth Day in 1970, and when he is not putting in time as a successful film and television actor, he is busy at work promoting green products, educating others about the conservation of earth’s natural resources and most importantly being a living example of a sustainable life. Continue reading →
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Apr 13
Kiss the Baby
NYC Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn hold Brooklyn-born 11 month old Sam Lutz at a rally to save Long Island College Hospital in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The hospital, which was purchased by SUNY Downstate in 2011, is reported to be losing $4 million a month and the NYS university system wants to close it and sell the real estate. There is currently a stay on the closing via a court order with a hearing scheduled for May. RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: lrphotos075864
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Apr 13
A Celebration of Spring
Bhangra dancers celebrate the Indian holiday of Holi at a street festival in New York on Saturday, March 20, 2010. The spring holiday of Holi, also called Festival of Colors, is celebrated by throwing and wearing colored powder. FRANCES M. ROBERTS/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: lrphotos052424
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Mar 13
Our Neighbor to the North
Van der Donck Park and the Saw Mill River are seen in the City of Yonkers in Westchester County in New York State on Saturday, March 23, 2013. For almost 100 years the Saw Mill River has been covered over in an Army Corps of Engineers project, running in a flume beneath Yonkers. In 2012 the first phase of the daylighting of the river was finished exposing a two-block area and transforming it into a downtown park. The exposed river and the park are expected to aid the economic development and transformation of the city’s downtown neighborhood. RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: lrphotos075453
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Mar 13
Guest Blog: Riding India’s Railways
Commuters stand at the open doorways of a suburban train as they head toward their destination in Mumbai November 3, 2012. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: rtrlfive759783
By Navesh Chitrakar, Reuters
My journey on the great railways of India began on October 23, 2012. The trip not only marked my first visit to India, it was also the first time that I had ever travelled on real trains because my home country, Nepal, does not have a proper rail network.
Everything about the trains was new to me, which made it really exciting. I started out from Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station in Delhi and headed towards Agra with the help of a railway atlas, a train map and a fixer. I had been provided with the fixer’s assistance for a couple days thanks to my chief photographer Ahmad Masood, one of the generous people who gave me a lot of help to complete this story. Continue reading →