The Museum of the City of New York needs more Hurricane Sandy photos for a coming exhibition. This one was taken along Avenue C.
Shattered houses, sand-caked cars, felled trees.
Hurricane Sandy printed indelible images on the city’s collective memory.
This fall, an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York will display many such scenes, captured by both average New Yorkers and professional photographers. The show will be entirely crowd-sourced.
“It’s easy for a lot of people to put this in the back of their mind,” said Sean Corcoran, curator of prints and photographs at the museum.
The show’s intent, he said, was to remind.
Curators are combing through more than 5,000 images — some snapped with iPhones, others with professional cameras — but they want more.
The deadline to submit has been extended to midnight on Thursday.
WEATHER
Another perfect day, with a high around 84 degrees and nothing but blue skies. Click for current forecast.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
• Mass Transit: Click for the latest status.
• Roads: Click for the latest status.
• Alternate side parking is in effect.
COMING UP TODAY
• On the mayoral trail: John C. Liu hits four boroughs (sorry, Staten Island), visiting senior centers and youth groups. William C. Thompson Jr. receives the endorsement of clergy citywide, and Bill de Blasio tours hospitals under threat of closure. Scott M. Stringer, in his bid for comptroller, meets voters at a Flatbush subway stop.
• Occupy Sandy is organizing a rally outside City Hall at noon to keep the spotlight on Hurricane Sandy victims.
• Firefighter Grill-Off: Brooklyn units compete to see who barbecues best at the Fairway in Red Hook from 12p.m. to 3 p.m. [Free]
• Meet a 13-year-old app developer, Jordan Casey, chief executive of Casey Games, at the Apple Store in SoHo at 6:30 p.m. [Free]
• Google is putting on a street fair in the meatpacking district at noon. Expect gizmos, not gyros. [Free]
• The Brooklyn Public Library and the Norman Mailer Center present adiscussion about that literary icon (and Brooklynite). At the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza at 7 p.m. [Free]
• You don’t have to be a rich man to see the 1971 musical film classic “Fiddler on the Roof” alfresco in Riverside Park. It’s free on Pier 1 at 8:30 p.m. [Free]
• Just downstream, Wes Anderson’s 2012 quirky and magical “Moonrise Kingdom” is playing in Hudson River Park. On Pier 61 at dusk. [Free]
IN THE NEWS
• Anthony D. Weiner released a video rejecting calls for him to drop out of the mayoral race. “‘Quit’ isn’t the way we roll in New York City,” he says. [New York Times]
• Barbara Morgan, Mr. Weiner’s chief spokeswoman, lashed out at a former intern — who yesterday published an account of her internship in the Daily News — in an expletive-laced interview. [New York Times]
• An appeals court upholds a decision preventing the city from limiting the sale of supersized sugary drinks, derailing the mayor’s push for smaller drink sizes. [New York Times]
• Aaron Greene, who was arrested for possession of explosives and accused of plotting to blow up the Washington Arch, gets seven years in prison. [Daily News]
• Some skyscrapers, including Rockefeller Center, cool off the old-fashioned way: giant blocks of ice. The buildings have installed massive ice-making tanks in their basements or rooftops. [CNN]
• Fishermen and others on Long Island are battling what would be the first delivery port for liquefied natural gas in New York State. It would be 20 miles off the shore of Jones Beach. [New York Times]
• There is a giant sand castle in downtown Manhattan. [DNA Info]
• A series of “selfie” photos taken by a man accused of attacking a woman in Carroll Gardens implicated him in the crime, the police said. [DNA Info]
AND FINALLY
On July 31, 1964, the lunar probe Ranger 7 took the first close-up shots of the moon’s surface. The 4,000 photos revealed that the face of the moon waslikely navigable by a manned craft, paving the way for the first moonwalk five years later.
With Ranger’s photos, The New York Times wrote, “Man’s path to the moon had been measurably cleared.”
Mona El-Naggar, E.C. Gogolak and Nicole Higgins DeSmet contributed reporting.
We’re testing New York Today, which we put together just before dawn and update until around noon.
Source: CityRoom
The Museum of the City of New York needs more Hurricane Sandy photos for a coming exhibition. This one was taken along Avenue C.
Shattered houses, sand-caked cars, felled trees.
Hurricane Sandy printed indelible images on the city’s collective memory.
This fall, an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York will display many such scenes, captured by both average New Yorkers and professional photographers. The show will be entirely crowd-sourced.
“It’s easy for a lot of people to put this in the back of their mind,” said Sean Corcoran, curator of prints and photographs at the museum.
The show’s intent, he said, was to remind.
Curators are combing through more than 5,000 images — some snapped with iPhones, others with professional cameras — but they want more.
The deadline to submit has been extended to midnight on Thursday.
WEATHER
Another perfect day, with a high around 84 degrees and nothing but blue skies. Click for current forecast.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
• Mass Transit: Click for the latest status.
• Roads: Click for the latest status.
• Alternate side parking is in effect.
COMING UP TODAY
• On the mayoral trail: John C. Liu hits four boroughs (sorry, Staten Island), visiting senior centers and youth groups. William C. Thompson Jr. receives the endorsement of clergy citywide, and Bill de Blasio tours hospitals under threat of closure. Scott M. Stringer, in his bid for comptroller, meets voters at a Flatbush subway stop.
• Occupy Sandy is organizing a rally outside City Hall at noon to keep the spotlight on Hurricane Sandy victims.
• Firefighter Grill-Off: Brooklyn units compete to see who barbecues best at the Fairway in Red Hook from 12p.m. to 3 p.m. [Free]
• Meet a 13-year-old app developer, Jordan Casey, chief executive of Casey Games, at the Apple Store in SoHo at 6:30 p.m. [Free]
• Google is putting on a street fair in the meatpacking district at noon. Expect gizmos, not gyros. [Free]
• The Brooklyn Public Library and the Norman Mailer Center present adiscussion about that literary icon (and Brooklynite). At the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza at 7 p.m. [Free]
• You don’t have to be a rich man to see the 1971 musical film classic “Fiddler on the Roof” alfresco in Riverside Park. It’s free on Pier 1 at 8:30 p.m. [Free]
• Just downstream, Wes Anderson’s 2012 quirky and magical “Moonrise Kingdom” is playing in Hudson River Park. On Pier 61 at dusk. [Free]
IN THE NEWS
• Anthony D. Weiner released a video rejecting calls for him to drop out of the mayoral race. “‘Quit’ isn’t the way we roll in New York City,” he says. [New York Times]
• Barbara Morgan, Mr. Weiner’s chief spokeswoman, lashed out at a former intern — who yesterday published an account of her internship in the Daily News — in an expletive-laced interview. [New York Times]
• An appeals court upholds a decision preventing the city from limiting the sale of supersized sugary drinks, derailing the mayor’s push for smaller drink sizes. [New York Times]
• Aaron Greene, who was arrested for possession of explosives and accused of plotting to blow up the Washington Arch, gets seven years in prison. [Daily News]
• Some skyscrapers, including Rockefeller Center, cool off the old-fashioned way: giant blocks of ice. The buildings have installed massive ice-making tanks in their basements or rooftops. [CNN]
• Fishermen and others on Long Island are battling what would be the first delivery port for liquefied natural gas in New York State. It would be 20 miles off the shore of Jones Beach. [New York Times]
• There is a giant sand castle in downtown Manhattan. [DNA Info]
• A series of “selfie” photos taken by a man accused of attacking a woman in Carroll Gardens implicated him in the crime, the police said. [DNA Info]
AND FINALLY
On July 31, 1964, the lunar probe Ranger 7 took the first close-up shots of the moon’s surface. The 4,000 photos revealed that the face of the moon waslikely navigable by a manned craft, paving the way for the first moonwalk five years later.
With Ranger’s photos, The New York Times wrote, “Man’s path to the moon had been measurably cleared.”
Mona El-Naggar, E.C. Gogolak and Nicole Higgins DeSmet contributed reporting.
We’re testing New York Today, which we put together just before dawn and update until around noon.
Source: CityRoom
