 | Columbia and Yale graduate students held a rally on April 20th on Morningside's campus. They are working to get their universities to recognize unions for teaching and research assistants.
(Photo/Rebecca Castillo)
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| |  | View of the Brooklyn Bridge from Old Fulton Street, near the East River.
(Photo/Arin Gencer)
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 | Rites of Spring on the Upper West Side: dogs, strollers and Sunday happy hour.
(Photo/Melanie Acostavalle)
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| |  | At County Route 60 in Greenwich, New York, a Barred Rock chicken considers crossing the road to get to the other side.
(Photo/Melanie Acostavalle)
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 | A mother and her children take a break while riding up to the Bronx on the No. 2 train.
(Photo/Sarah Tsang)
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| |  | A winter evening at my parents' home in Cambridge, VT.
(Photo/Amanda Bensen)
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 | Monument to Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," at 150th and Riverside.
(Photo/Amanda Benson)
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| |  | A view of the fireworks ceremony during the Chinese New Year celebration in Manhattan's Chinatown. The crowds that gathered could only see big billows of dust.
(Photo/Sarah Tsang)
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 | Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" near 65th Street and Fifth Avenue in Central Park on March 1. The 7,503 saffron-colored gates lined 23 miles of the park for 16 days, starting Feb. 12.
(Photo/Rebecca Castillo)
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| |  | The Gates by Christo weathered sun, rain and snow during it's two week display at Central Park. The pond by the 59th Street entrance showed the evidence of the recent snowstorm in mid February.
(Photo/Arin Gencer)
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 | Kitchen floor.
(Photo/Amanda Benson)
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| |  | An N train pulls into the Ditmars Station, the last stop in Queens. It's the hub of my incredible Astoria neighborhood.
(Photo/Hilary Russ)
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 | Kids of all ages flocked to the American Museum of Natural History during the New York City public schools' spring break.
(Photo/Kay Grennan)
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| |  | Installation of an exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum.
(Photo/Amanda Bensen)
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 | Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "Gates" had a 16-day run in
Central Park. This was the view from 110th Street and Fifth
Avenue.
(Photo/Sarah Tsang)
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| |  | Presidential dolls were among the wide
variety toys on display in February at the American International
Toy Far at the Jacob K. Javitz Center in New York City.
(Photo/Sara Hassan)
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