[media-credit id=1 align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Gingrich presents the G.O.P. with a wonderful gift!

[media-credit id=1 align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit]Friday morning, Washington Square Park’s petanque court, just north of the small-dog run, was seeing some action. Before the park’s renovation, the spot had long courts with low walls, but now it’s a just a smooth-surfaced area separate from the grass lawn.

[media-credit name="Photo by Milo Hess " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Occupy Wall Street demonstrators demonstrated meditation at Union Square on Friday.

[media-credit name="Photo by Tequila Minsky" align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit]Rebecca Lepkoff, the legendary Lower East Side photographer, posed for our photographer, Tequila Minsky, at a mutual friend’s house in December. “I saw her wearing that velvety holiday outfit,” Minsky recalled. “I saw the couch, and I asked her if I could take a portrait. It started as a [...]

[media-credit name="Photo by Tequila Minsky " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Zelda Kaplan, the clothing designer and style icon, was sitting front row at Joanna Mastroianni’s Fashion Week show last month when Kaplan, 95, collapsed and died. The photographer, who used to see the globe-trotting Kaplan at the Margaret Mead Festival, spotted this double-sided photo portrait, complete with [...]

[media-credit name="Photo by Jefferson Siegel " align="aligncenter" width="448"][/media-credit] On a recent warm day in Washington Square Park, Andrea Cacito, 19, from Brooklyn, spent time with some fine, feathered friends.