In this week’s photos from around New York, cigar lovers take advantage of a private park, the city’s sunbathers kick off summer, a prankster pours soap into a fountain, and more.
Sculptor Alice Aycock in her studio on Greene Street in SoHo. Her new work, “A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels,” has an opening Saturday at the Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, N.Y. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal )
Cigar fans gathered at the 2nd annual legal outdoor cigar-smoking event in the privately-owned Paley Park on East 53rd Street last week. (Andrew Hinderaker for The Wall Street Journal)
Nikayla Williams, 9 years old, left, and Jada Young 10, fourth-graders from P.S. 184 in Brownsville pulled weeds from the City Parks Foundation’s Learning Garden at Abib Newborn Park on the corner of Osborn and Newport streets Wednesday. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)
New Yorkers enjoyed the sunshine in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow Monday. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
A decorative mirror reflected a customer at the Greek Express, a restaurant at 3733 Riverdale Ave. between West 236 and 238th streets in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)
From left, Film Forum programmers Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan and Bruce Goldstein with actor Tony Musante at the theater. The Film Forum is preparing to launch an entire season of vintage Spaghetti Westerns. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)
The turkey porchetta lamb chop at Babbo in Manhattan’s West Village. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)
Debris littered a sidewalk on Stratford Avenue between Westchester and Watson avenues in the Bronx Monday after firefighters extinguished a blaze. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)
A passerby stopped to check out the fountain in Union Square Wednesday after a prankster filled the water with soap bubbles. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal )
New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island on Monday to enjoy Memorial Day—and the first official day of the summer season on the city’s beaches. Temperatures were in the 80s. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
NJ Transit commuters suffered through high temperatures in the Penn Station waiting room Wednesday; industrial strength fans were set up throughout the space. The spiking temperatures stem from efforts to improve the station’s dated climate system, an Amtrak spokesman said. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
A Pomeranian named Valerie accompanied her owner, Jessica Thomson, on a shopping trip to the Union Square farmers’ market Wednesday. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
Sculptor Alice Aycock in her studio on Greene Street in SoHo. Her new work, “A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels,” has an opening Saturday at the Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, N.Y. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal )
Cigar fans gathered at the 2nd annual legal outdoor cigar-smoking event in the privately-owned Paley Park on East 53rd Street last week. (Andrew Hinderaker for The Wall Street Journal)
Nikayla Williams, 9 years old, left, and Jada Young 10, fourth-graders from P.S. 184 in Brownsville pulled weeds from the City Parks Foundation’s Learning Garden at Abib Newborn Park on the corner of Osborn and Newport streets Wednesday. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)
New Yorkers enjoyed the sunshine in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow Monday. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
A decorative mirror reflected a customer at the Greek Express, a restaurant at 3733 Riverdale Ave. between West 236 and 238th streets in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)
From left, Film Forum programmers Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan and Bruce Goldstein with actor Tony Musante at the theater. The Film Forum is preparing to launch an entire season of vintage Spaghetti Westerns. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)
The turkey porchetta lamb chop at Babbo in Manhattan’s West Village. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)
Debris littered a sidewalk on Stratford Avenue between Westchester and Watson avenues in the Bronx Monday after firefighters extinguished a blaze. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)
A passerby stopped to check out the fountain in Union Square Wednesday after a prankster filled the water with soap bubbles. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal )
New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island on Monday to enjoy Memorial Day—and the first official day of the summer season on the city’s beaches. Temperatures were in the 80s. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
NJ Transit commuters suffered through high temperatures in the Penn Station waiting room Wednesday; industrial strength fans were set up throughout the space. The spiking temperatures stem from efforts to improve the station’s dated climate system, an Amtrak spokesman said. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
A Pomeranian named Valerie accompanied her owner, Jessica Thomson, on a shopping trip to the Union Square farmers’ market Wednesday. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
