Steamy Summer: The People of New York City in Pictures
Last Friday, July 1, photographer Andrew Piccone traveled to four neighborhoods in New York City. He spent an hour in each, to document the people, the looks and the sultry, lazy heights of summer. He brought back seven photos from each neighborhood, as he moved along from Rockaway Beach to the Upper East Side.
Rockaway Beach, on Beach 96th Street, 2 to 3 p.m.
Williamsburg, Bedford and South 5th Street, 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Upper East Side, 76th and Madison, 7:15 to 8: 15 p.m. Sponsored posts are purely editorial content that we are pleased to have presented by a participating sponsor—in this case, Braun. 
Fort Greene, Dekalb and Carlton Avenues, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m.
Andrew Piccone is a photographer in New York City. You can write him at andrewpiccone at gmail dot com.
second photo in the Upper East Side series is a time-lapse Choire, right?
@IBentMyWookie Paisley with checks? Choire would never!
@jolie We can't know what the future will bring!
Also, there are a number of gentleman in those photos who are more than welcome to put a baby in me.
@IBentMyWookie Ugh, I know, summer, right? It's… it's intense out. *fans self*
@Choire Sicha If you can track down 11th from the top, I'm willing to share. You can have him on his bandanna-wearing days.
@Choire Sicha The hot legged are certainly well represented.
The vest/shorts onesie: no.
@Bryan Keller Conversely, in the next one, the white button front shirts/awful jeans combos: no, no.
@Bryan Keller Not on those thunderthighs
@Bryan Keller : Particularly in light of the UES guy who's all (Matt Smith voice) "what, paisley pants are cool." And in this case, he's so right.
@jolie : You'd have massive thighs too if you spent all your time jumping out of a lamp.
@Bryan Keller He's not the only fashion victim. Under Fort Greene, Dekalb and Carlton Avenues, pic #4: dude, the rolled-up skinny jean look is not working for you. Or anyone else.
@whizzard But he matches his friend!
@SeanP This got so catty, so fast.
@saythatscool: Then let me be the first to come to the defense of the dirty-sexy-Travis-Bickelesque-biker dude and his rolled up jeans. Both he and his outfit are giving me the tinglies…
@Bryan Keller @SeanP IBentMyWookie would like a word with you.
Williamsburg Rabbi: 1, Braun: 0.
@Murgatroid How do we know he's a Rabbi and not just Hasidic? OR SUPER TRENDY?
@IBentMyWookie I see that hipsterorhasidicjew.tumblr.com has not yet been taken.
@Murgatroid But see http://hipsterorhasid.tumblr.com.
7th one down – the message on the guy's bag solves a big mystery for me, thanks. i have wondered for years what the deal is w/ sharon.
5th one – any chance you got the hatless fellow's number (LOL "number")?
@jolie YES. The other one has Starey Nipple Syndrome.
@jolie yes I believe it was 1 800 LOL
@C_Webb – Boy could subdivide that nipple and still have plenty left for the kids to kick around.
Are we getting all DOs and DON'Ts up in here or what?
@whizzard Gangsta Rabbi is a DO, yes?
@saythatscool If anyone says otherwise I'm pulling the nazi card.
This was like actually being in NYC, in that I really enjoyed all of it until I got to the Upper East Side.
@ejcsanfran: Even Mr. Genie in the onesie?
@Bittersweet: Yes – I enjoyed mocking him.
That first one's an ad for some wireless product, no?
@spiralbetty whatever he's selling, I'm buying. I love his curls!
@#56 Oh, he's adorable, but that tat looks photoshopped on.
@spiralbetty and now thanks to that tattoo I can't get Taylor Dayne out of my head.
IT'S LIKE I'VE HITCHED A RIDE TO . . . no? Okay, never mind.
People in NY are so pale… it's kinda scary.
pale is the new tan. vitamin D deficiencies and skin cancer be damned.
@SpaghettiWestern some people judge others based on things about their bodies that they can't control … it's kinda scary!
These photos are great, so I hate to be all spoilsport up in here (but let's be honest, that's what I do)….. but still – did all of these people give permission for their photos to be posted here?
@cherrispryte The photo of you is not the same thing as your photo.
@Niko Bellic Excuse my casual grammar. Did all of the people photographed consent to being photographed, with the knowledge that said photograph would appear on a popular website?
@Niko Bellic : Ceci n'est pas un hipster.
@cherrispryte Why, where else were they posted? (I kid, I kid.)
@cherrispryte If you walk on the streets of New York you consent to a lot more shit than just being photographed and having that photo appear somewhere. Also: this is a popular website now? These photos would need a lot more boobs in them before that happens.
@Niko Bellic Who pissed in your cornflakes? I don't think I'm asking an unreasonable question here.
@cherrispryte You were being serious? I was just trying to outsmartass you. I had no idea that needing to have a consent from the people you photograph in public before you publish those photos is a thing. Publishing the privates has gotten so out of hand, I thought publishing the public would be an obvious "given".
@Niko Bellic It is rare for me, I know, but I actually was being serious.
Because everything is all about me, my first thought upon seeing these was "If someone took a picture of me without my knowing it and posted it online and then people commented on it, I'd be PISSED." And then I wanted to know if that was the case or not.
@cherrispryte You might be pissed, but really: you go out in public, you can be photographed. Said photos can then be published. As long as the publishing can be considered journalism, there's no model release required.
Has Rockaway changed immensely or were these hipsters brought in just for the shoot?
@Rod T There's no such thing as hipsters anymore, that's just how the kids dress.
@Rod T
Sadly, the former:
Over the last few summers, this sandy and pockmarked peninsula has become an unlikely hangout for young, artsy types who make their home in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. Arriving by single-gear bicycle, Zipcar and the occasional skateboard, they’ve turned the once- neglected beach community into an anti-Hamptons, where polo games and Champagne galas have been replaced by bungalow barbecues and piña coladas at old Irish pubs. “The boardwalk is the new Bedford Avenue,” said Mr. Kaye, 34, referring to the cafe-clogged commercial spine of Williamsburg.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/fashion/summer-in-the-rockaways.html?_r=1&hp
@Captain Bringdown
Even the Times knows about it? I'm getting v old.
@Renee Dumas *call me
Protect that investment: get some sunscreen on those tattoos, kids!
TOO MUCH BROOKLYN
Sharon is Karen dude plz *call me
That's weird. I live in New York and I've never seen any of these people.
@erikonymous : Really? Because by the time I got to the end of this I was seriously humming "These Are The People In Your Neighborhood" to myself.
@erikonymous Even weirder: I live in New York and I'm not in any of these photos.
I guess what they say about all the minorities fleeing New York is true. There's a few, but man.
@BoHan Since I moved to Willamsburg (a year ago), an entire building across the street full of Puerto Rican people was emptied out, gutted, renovated, repainted, and I'm guessing will not be repopulated by Puerto Ricans. Not sure if we could call that "minorities fleeing". If this was where I came from seventeen years ago, it'd be called ethnic cleansing.
Ariel Sharon is Karen UhOh?
Also, many of these people need a good smack.
ThunderThigh Genie needs to donate some stems to his pal, there.
The Rabbi needs a beard ponytail like the bejeanned loon farther up. And would it kill him to pick up some of that litter?
wow i like that beach
It's hot, it's Summer and I want a cocktail from PKNY.
http://tastefortravel.com.au/blog/2197/painkiller-is-not-your-usual-tiki-bar/
Totally stealing that "Listen" tattoo from the dude in the first photo.