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.
WEATHER
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
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.
• 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]
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]
• 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]
• 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]
AND FINALLY
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.
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