For about eight years, I photographed New York City for The New York Times. I worked a number of beats, including local news, courts and classical music. Above: Eduardo Vianna, an assistant professor of psychology at LaGuardia Community College, lives with his wife, an adjunct psychology professor, and daughter in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. 

Joseph "No Bones" Collins dances the original Harlem Shake at a Manhattan community center.

Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis takes a break from walking the Broad Channel Labor Day parade.

Christian Rudder, a cofounder of the dating website OKCupid, runs after a taxi near his home in the Williamsburg.

An exotic pet shop employee gives special attention.

A "smellwalk" participant investigates the aroma of a trash can in Williamsburg.

A celebration to end month-long prayer readings at the United Sherpa Association in Queens. 

A practitioner of martial arts retires from the floor after sustaining a tear to his uniform. 

Shane Ruth, right, the Mens Visual Director, leads a crew working on a window installation with the theme "Astronomy" at the Bergdorf Goodman mens store on Fifth Ave.

The pit opens at the Warped Tour. Watch out. 

A patron tries to make a friend at The Sand Bar at Rockaway Beach. 

Layla Ramos, 3, stares at a dropped popsicle outside of Sley Deli in Borough Park.

Natalie Permikova attends a vigil outside Mount Manresa, a former Jesuit retreat sold to developers. 

A couple embraces to the soundtrack of a virtually-unknown touring band. 

Pianist Lola Astanova is lavished with attention following a performance at Carnegie Hall. 

Tens of thousands of fish, mostly bunkers, died in a week in the waters of the Peconic River. Algae blooms were to blame. 

Men watch two chestnut-bellied seed finches compete by singing short birdsongs in a public park in Queens. 

This chestnut-bellied seed finch is named "Legend."

An exhibition assistant stands inside a doomed model of a Barosaurus at the Museum of Natural History.

Wynton Marsalis plays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, left, and Syrian refugee Ola Hasan al Teibawi dine with their families at the residence of the ambassador.

Passengers ride the trouble-plagued New Jersey Transit.

Tranquilina Alvillar is comforted while returning to the Brooklyn apartment from which she was unlawfully evicted years before.

Two men, one of them puking, wait for a Queens-bound J train very early on a Sunday morning. (This photograph was shot for The Guardian.)

For about eight years, I photographed New York City for The New York Times. I worked a number of beats, including local news, courts and classical music. Above: Eduardo Vianna, an assistant professor of psychology at LaGuardia Community College, lives with his wife, an adjunct psychology professor, and daughter in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. 

Joseph "No Bones" Collins dances the original Harlem Shake at a Manhattan community center.

Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis takes a break from walking the Broad Channel Labor Day parade.

Christian Rudder, a cofounder of the dating website OKCupid, runs after a taxi near his home in the Williamsburg.

An exotic pet shop employee gives special attention.

A "smellwalk" participant investigates the aroma of a trash can in Williamsburg.

A celebration to end month-long prayer readings at the United Sherpa Association in Queens. 

A practitioner of martial arts retires from the floor after sustaining a tear to his uniform. 

Shane Ruth, right, the Mens Visual Director, leads a crew working on a window installation with the theme "Astronomy" at the Bergdorf Goodman mens store on Fifth Ave.

The pit opens at the Warped Tour. Watch out. 

A patron tries to make a friend at The Sand Bar at Rockaway Beach. 

Layla Ramos, 3, stares at a dropped popsicle outside of Sley Deli in Borough Park.

Natalie Permikova attends a vigil outside Mount Manresa, a former Jesuit retreat sold to developers. 

A couple embraces to the soundtrack of a virtually-unknown touring band. 

Pianist Lola Astanova is lavished with attention following a performance at Carnegie Hall. 

Tens of thousands of fish, mostly bunkers, died in a week in the waters of the Peconic River. Algae blooms were to blame. 

Men watch two chestnut-bellied seed finches compete by singing short birdsongs in a public park in Queens. 

This chestnut-bellied seed finch is named "Legend."

An exhibition assistant stands inside a doomed model of a Barosaurus at the Museum of Natural History.

Wynton Marsalis plays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, left, and Syrian refugee Ola Hasan al Teibawi dine with their families at the residence of the ambassador.

Passengers ride the trouble-plagued New Jersey Transit.

Tranquilina Alvillar is comforted while returning to the Brooklyn apartment from which she was unlawfully evicted years before.

Two men, one of them puking, wait for a Queens-bound J train very early on a Sunday morning. (This photograph was shot for The Guardian.)