Lørdag 7. november ble det endelig klart at Donald Trump har tapt valget og at Joe Biden blir USAs 46. president. New Yorkerne ventet ikke lenge med å starte feiringen. Donald Trump er en upopulær mann i sin hjemby hvor han fikk kun ca 20 prosent av stemmene, mot Joe Bidens 80 prosent. Straks valgresultatet…

Some were campaigning to the very end: At the southwest corner of Washington Square Park and just a few hours before the polls open on Tuesday, November 3 I came across this art installation consisting of about a hundred paper bags colorfully decorated with slogans and facts against Donald Trump and in favor of Joe…

Til tross for Covid19 pandemien herjer i New York har det ikke lagt noen demper på tradisjonen med å dekorere hus og hager i tiden før Halloween. Ihverfall ikke i nabolaget Bay Ridge i Brooklyn hvor jeg tok disse bildene.

First Street Green Park, First Street Green Cultural Park, First Street Green Art Park, or just FSG – It has a variety of names the little big park on East 1st Street by Houston Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Since 2008 this abandoned building lot has been serving the local community as an open…

It is September 11 2020 at the time of writing, it is 19 years ago since the tragic terror attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, the old World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. That was a tragedy that New York will never ever forget. The two light beams that lit up the sky from…

BLACK LIVES MATTER was today painted in large yellow letters on the asphalt right in front of the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. The block between 56th and 57th streets was shut down for the time it took to get the job done and for the paint to dry. President Donald Trump who owns and…

I den tidlige fasen med George Floyd og Black Lives Matter demonstrasjoner ble en rekke butikker i New York plyndret; vi så knuste vinduer og ødelagte fasader overalt. Som resultat og for å beskytte forretningene og New Yorks mange kjente bygninger ble fasader behørlig dekket med finerplater. Slik hadde jeg aldri sett New York før….