Halloween celebrations in New York a year ago. A man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a busy bike path along the Hudson River, killing eight people.It did not stop the Village Halloween Parade.

Halloween decorations on New York streets

Pumkins on New York City streets: Rockefeller center plaza, Channel Garden, Herald Square, Union Square Market.

The World's Largest Pumpkin, the largest pumpkin ever Grown in North America - 2528 pounds! The pumpkin is the New York Botanical Garden. The exhibit will only be open until Halloween.

Oculus, $4B terminal by Santiago Calatrava, the centerpiece of the World Trade Center, is the symbol of rebirth from Ground Zero.

Pumpkin Patch complete with scarecrow in the Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center.October 24, 2018

115-foot wooden Viking ship in New York Harbor. The ship is made of oak and Douglas fir, with a rigging of hemp. She was built in Haugesund in Norway, and is the largest Viking ship in modern times. She's not a replica, but was designed using data from archaeological finds and Old Norse literature.

The Second Avenue Subway is the city’s first major expansion project in more than 50 years. The 2nd Avenue Subway open Sunday Jan. 1 , 2017

Karol Badyna's statue of Polish hero, a World War II Polish resistance-movement soldier Jan Karski, in front of the Polish Consulate at the corner of 37th Street and Madison Avenue

Zuccotti Park, formerly called Liberty Plaza Park, created in 1968.After renovations in 2006, the park was renamed by its current owners, Brookfield Office Properties, after company chairman John Zuccotti.

Cambrian Manhattan Formation (or Manhattan Schist) in Central Park. Manhattan schist was formed about 450 million years ago.

Eagle Warehouse at 28 Old Fulton Street in Brooklyn, now converted to condominiums. This building was built by architect Frank Freeman in 1893 on the site of the old Brooklyn Eagle, where Walt Whitman worked.

111 West 57th Street(Steinway Tower) with a width-to-height ratio of about 1:23 on the left and Central Park Tower at 217 West 57th that will rise 1,550 feet (472 m) to the roof on the right. The view form the Gapstow bridge in Central Park

International Gem Tower,an office condominium, at 50 W 47th St.Tower was conceived and designed specifically to meet the needs of the world’s evolving diamond, gem and jewelry trade. The building's security includes biometric access control.

A 30-foot-wide silver globe in front of the globe The Trump International Hotel and Tower. The globe is a homage to the Unisphere, located in Trump's home borough of Queens

New York Academy of Medicine,at East 103rd Street at the corner of Fifth Avenue, across from Central Park. The Academy was founded in 1847 by a group of leading New York metropolitan area physicians.

Tudor City apartments, between East 41st to East 43rd, built in the mid 1920s by architect Fred F. French. Movies filmed in Tudor City include The Godfather Part III, The Peacemaker, Spider-Man, Taxi Driver. The view from East River

Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination at The Met Fifth Avenue galleries, closed on Oct. 8, was the most-visited exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 148-year history

96th Street, 2nd Avenue Subway. The extension to the Q Line was inaugurated on December 2016, marking the first major expansion of the city’s subway system in half a century.

Ovid quote, from the Bryant Park subway in New York City. "Gutta cavat lapidem". (Dripping water hollows out a stone.)

Channel Gardens, between Rockefeller Plaza and Fifth Avenue. Chrysanthemums in shades of red, white, yellow and orange are arranged to make carpet-like patterns. October 10, 2018

Pete's Tavern near the Gramercy Park, the oldest continuously operating bar and restaurant in New York City, opened its doors in 1864. It has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Seinfeld, Ragtime, Endless Love, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie, Spin City, Sex and the City.

Monument of Christopher Columbus in the center of Columbus Circle. To commemorate he 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the America ( 1892), Italians funded the dedication of Gaetano Russo's Columbus Circle stone monument.

Long waiting line at Metropolitan Museum of Art. The last days of the exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

Vanderbilt Gate, the entrance of Conservatory Garden at Fifth Avenue and 105th St. Designed by American architect George B. Post, it was made in France and adorned the mansion of Cornelius Vanderbilt II at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street

The first of High Line towers by a young Danish architect Bjarke Ingels with twisting silhouette.Prices for the condos will reportedly start at just under $4 million; completion is expected in 2019.

Statues of John Roebling, his son Washington and Washington's wife Emily near Brooklyn Bridge. John Augustus Roebling designed Brooklyn Bridge bridge, but died in 1869 from an injury. His oldest son, Washington A. Roebling, completed the bridge in 1883 with help from his wife, Emily Warren Roebling.

The James A. Farley Building, formerly the General Post Office Building, designed (1912) by McKim, Mead, and White to complement the original Pennsylvania Station, is the main United States Postal Service building in New York City. Fifty three Corinthian columns are topped by a frieze.

325 Kent, dougnut-shaped rental with market-rate apartments starting at $2,495 for studios and Domino Sugar Refinery, a former refinery in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn

Fountain outside 1251 Sixth Avenue, formerly known as the Exxon Building , one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States