Yana Paskova - Photojournalist, Writer, Photo Editor

New Yorkers: Before Times

New Yorkers (March 2008 - March 2020) 

Photographed for: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Getty Images, Reuters, The Washington Post, and The Humane Society 

  • Amadou Tandia takes a smoking break from posing for tourist photos dressed as the Statue of Liberty in Times Square in Manhattan, New York on Monday, August 13, 2012.(For The New York Times)
  • Felicita Pomares, 9, checks out a 1938 Plymouth Road King vintage car, on the way to the Fourth of July Parade in Montclair, NJ, on July 04, 2017.(For The New York Times)
  • A swimmer exits the ocean during Coney Island Polar Bear Club's New Year's Day Plunge on January 01, 2017 in Brooklyn, NY. (For Getty Images)
  • A young member of the 49th NYPD precinct Explorers program rehearses the color guard before Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, enters a town hall event in the Bronx, New York, U.S., on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Ocasio-Cortez met with veterans and registered nurses and discussed protecting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system from privatization. Photographer: Yana Paskova/Bloomberg
  • Ike Hedberg, 7, son of Mikie Sherrill, a Navy Pilot and former federal prosecutor who is running for Congress, exits the Fourth of July Parade in Montclair, NJ on July 04, 2017.(For The New York Times)
  • (L-R) Tenzin Dolkar, Tenzin Norsang, Hussein Khalique, and Tenzin Norgay walk around DUMBO during halftime of a screening of the US-Portugal World Cup game under the Manhattan Bridge archway in Brooklyn on June 22, 2014. The game ended 2-2 in overtime. (For The New York Times)
  • New York City Fire Department firefighter Terence O'Donnell rests after working on the scene of a crane collapse on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 91st Street and 1st Avenue on May 30, 2008 in Manhattan, New York. The crane collapsed on top of an apartment building crashing into a penthouse apartment and falling to the ground. (For Getty Images)
  • A woman checks her phone at the 49th Street station of the N train in Manhattan, New York on Sunday, December 27, 2009.(For The New York Times)
  • Film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives to his trial at the New York County Criminal Court in New York, U.S., January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Yana Paskova
  • Women sing {quote}El Violador Eres Tu{quote} ({quote}The Rapist Is You,{quote}) an anthem created by the Chilean feminist collective Las Tesis, in Times Square after walking in the Annual Women's March on January 18, 2020 in Manhattan, NY. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
  • Members of the media wait inside One Police Plaza before the trial of Officer Daniel Pantaleo on May 13, 2019 in New York City. Officer Pantaleo faces charges of using a chokehold on and intentionally restricting the breathing of Eric Garner, who died as a result of the altercation. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
  • Guests mingle at the Conservatory Ball under a tent set up in The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York on Thursday, June 06, 2013.(For The New York Times)
  • A guest of the Conservatory Ball, set up under a tent in The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York on Thursday, June 06, 2013. (For The New York Times)
  • A participant in the Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade fiddles with his mask in Manhattan, NY on February 25, 2018.
  • Veterans' reflections are seen on the car window of Eve Stollak, wife of army veteran Jack Stollack, as they prepare to participate in the The Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade, the largest in the nation, in Little Neck, NY on May 29, 2017.(For The New York Times)
  • Eight-year-old Lauren Mulligan, dressed for the warm weather, checks out the holiday storefronts of Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan, NY on December 22, 2013. The temperatures of the day were projected to reach an uncharacteristic for December high of 70 degrees Fahrenheit. (For The New York Times)
  • Kids attend a birthday party at the East River Family Center in Manhattan, NY on August 19, 2016.(For The New York Times)
  • A costumed dancer prepares to participate in the 46th annual West Indian parade on Labor Day on Monday, September 02, 2013, in Brooklyn, New York. (For New York magazine)
  • Nasty Canasta reads from a book, disrobed, at a Naked Girls Reading NYC at the Madame X bar in Manhattan, New York on Thursday, February 17, 2011. (For The New York Times)
  • George Lambert hugs his son, police officer Matthew Lambert, 21, after his graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, New York on December 29, 2014. Tension against police has recently escalated after the killing of several unarmed black men during routine arrests across the country.
  • Police watch activists protest in Times Square in response to the recent fatal shootings of two black men by police, July 7, 2016 in New York, NY. Protests and public outcry have grown in the days following the deaths of Alton Sterling on July 5, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile on July 6, 2016, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. (For Getty Images)
  • Activists protest in Times Square in response to the recent fatal shootings of two black men by police, July 7, 2016 in New York, NY. Protests and public outcry have grown in the days following the deaths of Alton Sterling on July 5, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile on July 6, 2016, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. (For Getty Images)
  • Thousands of people gather in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan, NY, on August 14, 2017, to protest this weekend's violent white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.(For The Wall Street Journal)
  • Parishioners wait for communion during Sunday service at Our Lady of Peace in Manhattan, NY on March 05, 2017. (For The New York Times)
  • A crowd gathers for Hachnosas Sefer Torah in front of 47 Forshay Road in Monsey, NY, on December 29, 2019, where suspect Grafton Thomas, 38, stabbed 5 people at a Hanukkah gathering the previous evening. Anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise around the country — and in New York City, anti-Semitic crimes have risen by 21 percent in the past year, according to the Anti-Defamation League. (For The New York Times)
  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gives a press conference at City Hall in New York, New York, on December 21, 2015. (For Washington Post)
  • Fourteen-month-old Ellie Englund watches her bunny-outfitted shadow at the Easter Day Parade on 5th ave. between 49th and 57th st. on March 23, 2008 in New York, New York. The parade attracted hundreds of people who wanted to show off their Easter garb. (For Getty Images)
  • Members of a delegation from Indonesia wait outside of a meeting room during the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York, NY, on September 23, 2019.Yana Paskova/Reuters
  • Barricades surround Tiffany & Co. (in reflection) on 5th Avenue's luxury shopping strip near Trump Tower in Manhattan, NY on November 18, 2016.(For The New York Times)Assignment ID: 30198910A
  • Thomas Carr enters his home through the window to unlock the front door during a Humane Society rescue call of his cat, Bunny, and dog, King, in Island Park in Long Island, New York, on Wednesday, November 07, 2012. Many residents evacuated in a hurry without the means to take their pets, nor without realizing it may be days before they could return to rescue them. (For The Humane Society)
  • A line of people awaits entry to the trial of Officer Daniel Pantaleo at One Police Plaza on May 13, 2019 in New York City. Officer Pantaleo faces charges of using a chokehold on and intentionally restricting the breathing of Eric Garner, who died as a result of the altercation. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
  • Five-year-old Aaliyah White sits on a bench inside the Conservatory Garden in Central Park, in East Harlem in Manhattan, New York, on Sunday, May 26, 2013.(For The New York Times)
  • The Visions In Motion dance group prepares to march down Eastern Parkway for the West Indian American Day Parade, in celebration of the Caribbean Carnival on September 04, 2017 in Brooklyn, NY. (For Getty Images)
  • Aude Back de Surany, center, and other passengers are reflected in the back window of an uptown C train traveling through a subway tunnel in New York, New York on January 30, 2015. (For The New York Times)
  • A pedestrian shields herself from the afternoon sun walking across the Manhattan bridge toward Brooklyn, with the graffitied buildings of Chinatown in the background, in New York, New York, on July 16, 2015. (For The New York Times)(For The New York Times)
  • A woman decorates a snowman in Times Square as all cars but emergency vehicles are banned from driving on the roads on January 23, 2016 in New York, NY. The Northeast and parts of the South experienced heavy snow and ice from a slow-moving winter storm, resulting in numerous traffic collision deaths.(For Getty Images)
  • Children and their parents sled down a hill in Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan, New York, after a significant snowstorm blanketed the Mid-Atlantic States on January 24, 2016. (For The New York Times)
  • Joe Kowalski (center) checks the darkening clouds during a horse race at the Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York on Tuesday, May 29, 2012.(For The New York Times)
  • A man peers out from his glasses as people congregate in the lead-up to New Year's eve celebrations in Times Square in New York, NY on December 31, 2016.(For Getty Images)
  • Soccer fans watch the USA-Belgium World Cup game under the Manhattan bridge underpass in Brooklyn, New York on July 01, 2014. Belgium won 2-1 in overtime.(For The New York Times)
  • Park-goers enjoy the snow in Central Park in Manhattan, NY on January 08, 2017. (For The New York Times)
  • Beach-goers populate Field 6 during a windy day on Jones Beach in Wantagh, New York on May 12, 2013.
  • Swimmers run into the ocean during Coney Island Polar Bear Club's New Year's Day Plunge in Brooklyn, NY on January 01, 2017. (For Getty Images)
  • A man tans on Orchard Beach in the Bronx, NY on July 03, 2016.(For The New York Times)
  • A man rolls around in confetti on New Year's eve in Times Square in New York, NY just after midnight on January 01, 2017.(For Getty Images)
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