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Best of 2018: Top New York City photos of the year

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  • Chong Cha poses on 11th Avenue with her Pomeranians, Zuzu, left, and Zunky, right, during a snowstorm, Manhattan, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. New York City is expected to get between 6 and 10 inches of snow, with parts of Queens and Brooklyn likely getting more than Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, the National Weather Service said.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Ravi Ragbir, center, the executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City, is greeted by immigrant advocates and supporters before the start of a weekly protest at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building in lower Manhattan, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. A federal judge ordered Ragbir released from federal custody after he was detained during a routine check-in with ICE on Jan. 11.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Adrienne Zdaniewski and her daughter Gray 2, place flowers in a makeshift memorial during a vigil at the corner of 5th Avenue and 9th Street in Park Slope where two children were killed in a car crash yesterday, Tuesday, March 6, 2018.
    Photo Credit: Jeff Bachner
  • A U.S. Army Corp of Engineer salvage team hoist the wreckage of a Liberty Helicopters tour craft out of the East River, Manhattan, Monday, March 12, 2018. Five passengers in a helicopter chartered for a photo shoot died after the aircraft crashed into the East River on Sunday evening.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Students from LaGuardia High School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan sit and lay down as they join thousands of students Wednesday, March 14, 2018, during a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Florida. The 17-minute protests unfolding at hundreds of schools are intended to pressure Congress to approve gun control legislation after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and come 10 days before major protests in Washington and elsewhere.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • People walk along Houston St. past an image of Zehra Dogan that highlights a new work by street artist Banksy at the corner of Houston Street and the Bowery Friday, March 16, 2018. The mural protests the imprisonment of Dogan, the Turkish artist and journalist who was sentenced last March for painting the destruction of a Turkish town with the country's flag flying over rubble.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • The casket carrying New York City firefighter Michael R. Davidson, who was killed in the line of duty while battling a Harlem blaze last Friday, arrives at St. Patrick's Cathedral Tuesday, March 27, 2018. The cause of the fire, at the former home of St. NickÕs Pub, a jazz club that closed in 2011, remains under investigation. The St. Nicholas Ave. building was being used as a set for ÒMotherless Brooklyn."
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Taxi drivers hold a demonstration on the steps of City Hall after a fourth driver committed suicide earlier this month, Manhattan, March 28, 2017. The drivers say they are facing financial hardship-including a large the decrease in the value of their taxi medallions-as a result of unfair competition from app-based ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • People look out of of a broken-out window above a fire-damaged apartment on the 50th floor of Trump Tower the day after a fatal four-alarm fire in the Manhattan building, Sunday, April 8, 2018. President Donald Trump, who has a residence in the building, tweeted shortly after the fire was initially reported as under control,
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Former film mogul Harvey Weinstein walks in handcuffs from the NYPD's 1st Precinct in lower Manhattan Friday, May 25, 2018, after turning himself in.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Funeral service for Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, known as "Junior" was victim of gang violence in a case of mistaken identity service held at Our Lady of Mounty Carmen Church in the Bronx today June 27, 2018
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • Members of the NYPD Explorers embrace during the funeral service for Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, known as "Junior", who was the victim of gang violence in a case of mistaken identity. The service was held at Our Lady of Mounty Carmen Church, Wednesday, June 27, 2018.
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • Smoke billows from a steam pipe explosion on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Thursday morning July 19, 2018
    Photo Credit: Louis Lanzano
  • A person walks past a taped phrase that says "ARETHA MAKES ME FEEL LIKE A NATURAL WOMAN" is placed on three step risers at the Franklin Street subway station, Manhattan, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. Aretha Franklin, the trailblazing singer known as the "Queen of Soul" for hits such as 
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • An emergency services cop pursues a goat wandering on the train tracks at 14th Avenue and 61st Street in Brooklyn on Monday.
    Photo Credit: Todd Maisel
  • Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon arrive for their debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead on Aug. 29.
    Photo Credit: Pool/Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
  • Seven months later, some of the nearly 100 displaced 85 Bowery tenants joined supporters and fellow tenants for a ceremony as they return home to complete the move in process at 85 Bowery in Chinatown, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. The forceful displacement, prompting a series of protests, court hearings and hunger strikes, has ended with the nearly 100 displaced tenants joining supporters and landlord representatives in a ceremony as they return home and work to complete the move in process.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Army Reserve Sergeant Edwin Morales takes a knee for his cousin, FDNY Firefighter Ruben Correa, who died during the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center during a commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero marking the 17th anniversary on Tuesday.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Workman shown taken down Trump Place sign on co-op apartment house at 200 Riverside Blvd in Manhattan. 10/18//2018
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • BETTER QUALITY An NYPD bomb unit member appears to be removing a suspicious package discovered Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, at a US Post Office on W 52 st in Manhattan.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Actor Alec Baldwin leaves the NYPD's 6th Precinct after he was arrested following a fight allegedly over a parking spot Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in the West Village.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Philip (l) and Cathie Vetrano, parents of slain jogger Karina Vetrano, leave the courtroom at Queens Criminal Court after the judge declares a mistrial in the case of their daughter's accused killer Chanel Lewis, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018.
    Photo Credit: Jeff Bachner
  • Leaders of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) UFCW, elected officials, progressive leaders and others gather at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, as officials made an announcement about Amazon workers and New York City. This announcement comes amid growing backlash to AmazonÕs #HQ2 deal to open a new corporate headquarters in Long Island City. It follows on the heels of large protests against Amazon on Monday in New York City, and on black Friday throughout Europe, where AmazonÕs warehouse workers have held strikes in recent months demanding better treatment.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • A recent arrival of a Mandarin Duck that has become somewhat of a star for the past few weeks swims in Central Park's The Pond Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. The duck, a native of Asia, showed up a few weeks ago, and is often seen swimming with Mallards, Wood Ducks and other species in the waters of the park.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
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    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert

Here’s a look back at some of the biggest news events and best photos from New York City this year. 

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