Year in New York Pictures

Compelling photographs from New York and the region, including Occupy Wall Street, the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and Hurricane Irene.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/year-in-new-york-pictures/?pagewanted=all

Any one of these images describe the New York of 2011. Taken together as a crazy quilt, they describe a New York that is simply timeless.