The Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez rounds third base after hitting his 600th career home run during the first inning of a game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium Wednesday. (Justin Lane/European Pressphoto Agency)
A child was fatally struck by a tow truck at 124th Street and Second Avenue on the ramp to the RFK Bridge Friday, July 30. The 7-year-old was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)
Anna Matchett, 7, left, and Reed Habiak, 10, middle, feed milk to a pig with the help of John Forshee, aka Farmer John, during opening day of the Middlesex County Fair in East Brunswick, N.J. last Monday. (Emile Wamsteker for The Wall Street Journal)
New York Fire Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano presided over a ceremony promoting 35 lieutenants to the rank of captain on Wednesday at Randall’s Island. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)
A school bus accident on Saddle River Road at the intersection of Ackertown Road in Chestnut Ridge N.Y., on Wednesday. 18 people sustained minor injuries. ( Alan Zale for The Wall Street Journal )
Funeral services are held for Leisa Jones and her four children at the Brooklyn Funeral Home and Cremation Center on Tuesday. Fire investigators determined that Jones intentionally set fire to the Staten Island home where she lived with her children. (Andy Kropa for The Wall Street Journal)
Girls from Westchester County swimming clubs wait to compete in the Westchester County Swimming Association’s 85th annual championship at Playland Pool in Rye on Thursday. (Suzy Allman for The Wall Street Journal)
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stands with local religious leaders Tuesday to deliver a speech on a Landmarks Commission vote that essentially clears the way for a mosque and Islamic cultural center to be built a few blocks north of Ground Zero. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)
Police officers inspect a Brooklyn sinkhole where a man fell on Tuesday; he was evacuated by medics. (Andy Kropa for The Wall Street Journal)
Deviled eggs at Fort Defiance in Red Hook, Brooklyn. (Mimi Ritzen Crawford for The Wall Street Journal)
Neighborhood kids on an NYC Play Street on 114th between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. boulevards. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
Caroline Giuliani, daughter of former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, leaves the 19th Precinct on Wednesday after her arrest for allegedly shoplifting at Sephora. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)
An artful gazpacho at The Wright, a restaurant located inside the Guggenheim Museum. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)
Meg Myles, a pinup model turned animal healer, handles an injured bird. She keeps and cares for birds in the bathroom of her Upper West Side apartment. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)
A young male was struck by a fuel truck while riding a bike along Fresh Pond Road in Queens last Monday. (Ken Maldonado for The Wall Street Journal)
People look at works in Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal before the unveiling of the world’s largest artistic billboard made of Post-it Super Sticky Notes. (Ross Mantle/The Wall Street Journal)
Hugo Alfonzo, 6, of Flushing, watches the Copa NYC Finals at Flushing Meadows Corona Park last Sunday. The final was between NYC Poland and NYC Jamaica. (Brian Harkin for The Wall Street Journal)
Electric Windows 2010, an art festival in Beacon, N.Y. (Kimberly Coccagnia for The Wall Street Journal)
Cooling off in the Long Island Sound during opening night of the Gathering of the Vibes, a four-day music festival in Bridgeport, Conn. (Jesse Neider for The Wall Street Journal)
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