Sanie Whalen

Storefront, 21st St between 5th & 6th aves. This photo is of a pop-up Halloween store's window a few days after Halloween, just a few days before the mannequins had all been dressed in flamboyant costumes. I love this photo because its SO NYC to me, our town has so many remnants, so many ghosts.

Stanley B Pollak

Sunset with storm clouds moving in on the Chicago's Millennium Park Bean

Mara Miller

This photo was taken in Ocean Grove, NJ, a year after hurricane Sandy. It is of the pier that is still yet to be fixed, symbolizing all the work that is still left to do along the NJ/NY shores.

susan horwitz

My son had just played hockey at Lasker Rink. On the way to the D train we stopped to climb on the huge boulders near the playground. We tried to get a shot with both feet off the ground, and this one worked! It's one of my favorite pics of the year because it's a about a moment of childhood joy. Plus the leaves and overexposed sun are pretty!

Sanie Whalen

Bryant Park fountain, I skate 3-4 mornings per week & I always take pictures of the fountain when it freezes, I just think its beautiful

Mindy Fichter

Having lived in Brooklyn for nearly a decade, cycling has become increasingly important to my happiness while in this sometimes overwhelming city. I thrive on the community and subculture that surrounds bicycling in the city.

The pinnacle event for me each March is the Red Hook Criterium, which is a 20-something lap nighttime track bike road race that attracts people from all parts of the cycling world to compete and spectate.

The amount of energy and determination from these riders was palpable as they whizzed by in pelotons both large and small. It was impossible to catch a crisp outline of these riders with only the street lights to illuminate them, but I wanted desperately to capture a moment of the energy I felt from that night. I like that this image shows motion, movement, getting somewhere fast, even though really, the only place these riders were headed was back around for another loop. But even though they were competing against one another, they still gave off an aura of togetherness--a pack mentality of sorts.

It reminds me of what biking in New York is like to the average cyclist: we do so much back and forth while commuting, many of us enjoy riding the loops of the circumference of the various islands our boroughs are made up of, some of us even enjoy smiling and saying hello to our fellow two-wheeler compatriots while waiting for a green light. This race imbues all of that, and to me, is therefore perfectly New York.

Rebecca P. Feldman

I handed my phone to the Dodge Raminator folks at a Morris Township, NJ dealership to get this shot. I wanted to capture the essence of my independent, grassroots campaign for the NJ General Assembly in Governor Christie's home District (LD25) where I challenged the monolithic one-party machine, campaigning in all 22 towns from the red "campaign mobile" which my younger daughter calls Clifford.

ellen rios

This was taken shortly after it was installed in August 2013, on my stoop in Brooklyn.
Multi media, paint and hand made ceramic. Hand done by myself and my son.
So far only positive response.

Dayna Bealy

This is the Red Hook (Bklyn) swimming pool following a "fecal matter no swimming" ousting of everyone from the pool.

I like that for once, it looks peaceful and the colors are beautiful. So different from the usual crowds!

Rebecca P Feldman

I was out biking in Green Village (Madison, NJ) on Veteran's Day when this small house with the huge flag stopped my ride. While I was standing over my bike taking snapping pictures with my Iphone4, cars stopped so their drivers could do the same. For that moment we were all united in appreciation for the sacrifice (so much of it hidden these days) which our service women and men are making every day. It made my "loss" of the NJ Assembly race (District 25, IND) seem related and yet picayune.

sarah meredith

Over the years, I have taken any number of photographs of this building - the El Dorado - at 90th St. and CPW for two reasons. One, it is a lovely piece of the westside skyline and two because it is the building in which I met my husband almost 38 years ago. I took this picture today as much for the snow scene as for the sentimental or architectural significance.

John Hamilton

I took this photo in St. John's Church Getty Square in Yonkers New York on Maundy Thursday. It is the altar where the sacrament sits overnight before the Good Friday Service. I thought it had an eerie quality that evoked a sense of both death and promise.

Suzanne Bruner

This photo has been taken 8 zillion times. It's the mall in Central Park but I like mine as it captures the curly branches lined with snow on the stand of the magnificent American Elm trees. I love the quality of"everyman" walking dutifully, quietly, anonymously on a cold slushy walk towards their home on a wintery New York "any" night.

Stephen Sullivan

An ivy covered facade in Boreum Hill Brooklyn.

James Molloy

This is a photograph, taken on my cell phone, of an x-ray of my abdomen. In the center of the image (on my left side, pointing at my spine) is a floating white object, about the size and shape of a cocktail sword. This is a boutonniere pin swallowed accidentally at a mock-prom hosted by the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. (While adjusting the purple flower on my lapel, I gripped the pin between my teeth. Then, suddenly, it was gone.) I took the photograph in the ER of Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, IA, just before undergoing an emergency endoscopy. Since I needed to drive from the Midwest to New York the next day, I elected to undergo the procedure without sedative. As you might imagine, this decision was, for all intents and purposes, the decision of a madman.

Katie Potochney

I was slowly walking home from the laundry on my corner in North Greenpoint in the morning on Saturday, December 7th, enjoying the first snow of the season. While adjusting my glove, the fattest, most perfect snowflake I'd ever seen landed on my finger. I froze, dropped everything, scrambled for my phone before it melted. But the snowflake waited for me, and let me capture this moment of nature's perfection. And of course then I had to 'gram it. :)

Gigi Giacomara

Took this at the Bronx Zoo during a recent snowfall.

Stephen Sullivan

I took this photo in Brooklyn Bridge park on my commute home from work this summer. I live in Cobble Hill Brooklyn and work in DUMBO.

Heidi Neurauter

I took this near the bike path on Columbia Street in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago during a foggy early morning dog walk. I don't take many photos with my phone, but I was so struck by the gloominess of the morning and how everything seemed to be in black and white, I couldn't resist. I didn't use a filter or anything. It's just the way the day looked.

I returned about an hour later to the same site with my "real camera" but most of the pigeons had left their perch and the results weren't nearly as striking.

Koren Reyes

I took this on January 15, 2013 in Central Park just down the hill from the Dairy. While most people in NYC, including me, spend a lot of time looking up, I also like to look down. I like the visual flow in this shot as well as the contrasting textures of the gritty sidewalk, the feathery branches and the smooth, flat water of the puddle.