A woman goes for an early morning swim at Sunken Meadows Park, in Kings Park, Long Island, NY.

Volunteers of America hold their annual 'Santa School' inside their Greater New York Offices.  The sidewalk Santas in training, learn the ins and outs of Saint Nicking before taking their positions as the famed bell ringers throughout New York City.

A woman sits with the literal fruits of her labor at Hands & Heart Community Garden in East New York. The residents who run the garden fear that the expiration Garden Settlement of 2002, a rule that protects community gardens, may lead to the end of the urban farm.

Peninsula Hospital workers outside the facility after being told that the nearly bankrupt hospital was no longer provideding health insurance for its employees

Virgina Andre and her with her daughter London Davis of the Bronx stand outside Federal Court in Brooklyn, during a protest of the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the Killing of Trayvon Martin.

Hamzah Alnuzaili, a Golden Glove boxer and aspiring New York  City police officer, inside Teddy Atlas Cops and Kids Boxing Gym.

Altagracia Mayi breaks down at the site where her son Manny was killed in a bias attack in 1981.

People protest in Foley Square against the showing of the controversial film "The Third Jihad" during a New York police Department Training.

Jaquan Cross Williams sits outside his home the day after he was shot in the wrist by a stray bullet. The Brownsville tween was riding his bike when a gunmen fired wildly at an unrealted target.

Brooklynites gather in Grand Army Plaza for a candlelight vigil for the victims of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona. On January 8,  2011 crazed gunman Jarred Lee Loughner opened fire at an event sponsored by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, killing six.

Artist Martha Walker works in her Gowanus Studio.

Artist Martha Walker works in her Gowanus Studio.