Doing my rounds of photographing the trees of Tompkins square Park for my tree identification project, at first I thought people were peeing at the southeast entrance to the park. But no, it was just the flowers of this hawthorn tree. The strong fragrance attracted many Red Admiral butterflies which are migrating through NYC at the moment.

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Slightly ahead of the super full moon at sunset on the Lower East Side. When the moon at perigee coincides with the full moon it is called a super full moon. It is cloudy tonight when it happens, this was shot on Friday.

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High above the Southeast  corner of  Tompkins Square Park this armless, winged angel stares out over the park. I’ve seen other angels with wings for arms around NYC.

Another Angel and This one has arms.

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Sam Seder host of Majority Report and his producer Matt Binder recording a May Day podcast in Bryant Park.

Sam concentrating on his live podcast, while I annoyingly snapped this.

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Retired police captain Ray Lewis describes what led him to civil disobedience and arrest in support of Occupy Wall Street, and what he will be doing on the May 1, general strike. No Work, No School, No Shopping! maydaynyc.org

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Sign taped to the light pole on Avenue A.

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On Avenue A.

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