Horseback riders in traditional Mexican outfits get ready for the annual Cinco de Mayo parade in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, Saturday, May 4, 2008. Meant to commemorate Mexico’s victory over France in 1862, the event has been transformed into a week-long celebration of Chicago’s large Mexican American population. (TED REGENCIA/Featured on Gapers Block and the Chicagoist.)
It’s Sommarfest once again in Chicago, but this fixture from the Andersonville neighborhood has her attention fixed on her cigarette. Sommarfest is an annual festival of harvest celebrated by Windy City’s Swedish community. (TED REGENCIA)
Eid el-Fitr, a three-day Islamic holiday, marks the end of the holy month of fasting called Ramadan. At Parkchester in the Bronx, predominantly Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh say their afternoon prayer, Aug. 23, 2011. (TED REGENCIA)
On the road to his presidential nomination, U.S. Senator from Illinois Barack Obama celebrates a crucial victory in Iowa on Tuesday, January 4, 2008. Obama won 38 percent of the Democratic vote defeating frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton from New York and former Democratic nominee for vice president John Edwards. (TED REGENCIA/To read the full story, please click here.)
The Venice Fishing Port in Florida is a popular spot for families to hang out in the afternoon during the Summer and Fall. Here a father-and-son team prepares the bait for their fishing rods. (TED REGENCIA)
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg presides over the gay marriage ceremony of his top aides Jonathan Mintz (left) and John Feinblatt (right), on Sunday, July 24, 2011 the first day that same-sex unions were allowed in the state. While the state law is not recognized by the federal government, Bloomberg said it marks another historic step for civil rights in the U.S. Also in photo, Mintz and Feinblatt’s daughters Maeve, 8, and Georgia, 6. (TED REGENCIA/To read the full story, please click here.)
It’s been almost six years since the New Fulton Fish Market moved to The Bronx after 180 years in lower Manhattan. The $86-million, half-mile long facility houses more than 30 wholesale distributors, bringing over a billion dollars in annual revenue. It is the second largest fish market in the world next to Tsukiji in Tokyo, Japan. (TED REGENCIA/To read the multimedia story, please click here)
Featured in the Columbia Journalism School website (TED REGENCIA)
Featured in the Columbia Journalism School website (TED REGENCIA)
Race leaders of the 2011 New York marathon’s men’s division, including eventual winner and marathon record-holder Geoffrey Mutai (right) breeze through the Bronx shortly after passing the 20-mile marker, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. An estimated 47,000 runners from 107 countries took part in the competition. (TED REGENCIA)
Some 6,000 bicycle enthusiasts cruised the Bronx on Sunday, Oct. 23. for the 17th annual Tour de Bronx. Young and old participants took over the streets from Bronx County Courthouse to the Pelham Bay Park. The controversial Sheridan Expressway was also shut for a day to accommodate the cyclists. (TED REGENCIA/To read on Storify, please click here)
Former cricket star and Pakistani politician Imran Khan talks about his impending run for the premiership in Pakistan and the U.S. war on terror during a talk at the Columbia Journalism School, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. (TED REGENCIA)
Herbert Korman, 91, the oldest member of Temple Emanuel at Parkchester in The Bronx reflects in silent prayer during the Shabat service, Saturday, Oct. 1. On Oct. 31, 2011, the conservative synagogue will officially close, bringing an end to another chapter of Jewish history in the Bronx. (TED REGENCIA/To read the full story, please click here.)
King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein of Jordan ponders about the Arab Spring and the future of the Middle East in a speech at Columbia University, Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. Abdullah was in New York for the annual United Nations Assembly, where he addressed Palestine’s quest for statehood. (TED REGENCIA)
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York, the city remembers the 2,819 victims with the Tribute in Light representing the collapsed Twin Towers. (TED REGENCIA)
Hurricane Irene packed a much weaker punch when it hit New York early Sunday morning of Aug. 28, 2011, prompting Mayor Mike Bloomberg to declare that the city “certainly dodged a bullet.” But it still left some scattered scenes of destruction in the Bronx, uprooting trees and destroying properties around the Parkchester district. (TED REGENCIA)
Former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talk about the state of the American economy during the second day of a jobs summit in Chicago, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Aside from the debt ceiling impasse, Clinton also grilled Geithner about the his reported departure from the Treasury Department, which the latter denied. (TED REGENCIA/To read the full story, please click here.)
Thirty five same-sex couples and their families let a loud cheer shortly before a mass civil union ceremony at the Millenium Park in Chicago, Thursday, June 2, 2011. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, who signed the legislation legalizing gay civil union, joined Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the event. (TED REGENCIA/To read the full story, please click here.)
Bob Katzman at his Magazine Museum shop in Skokie, Illinois. Katzman claims to have 140,000 vintage magazines in his collection including copies of National Geographic from 1918. (TED REGENCIA)
It’s the single deadliest tornado to hit one town in the U.S. since 1953, according to the National Weather Service. At least 116 people were reported killed, while thousands more remain homeless when a tornado hit the southwest Missouri town of Joplin on Sunday, May 22, 2011. (TED REGENCIA)
Friday, Sept. 11, 2010 marks the first full day of Eid al-Fitr, a three-day feast celebrating the end of Ramadan, the monthlong period of prayer and fasting for the Islam religion. At the Muslim Community Center in Morton Grove, Ill., faithfuls reflect and pray with one voice. (TED REGENCIA/To read the full story, please click here.)
A Filipino American veteran of World War II carries the Philippine flag at the conclusion of the commemoration of the Bataan Death March in Maywood, Illinois, Sept. 9, 2007. The 60-mile march in 1942, which followed the Japanese invasion, claimed the lives of five to 10 thousand Filipinos and over 600 Americans. (TED REGENCIA)
A scene from rural America taken in the Northwestern New York town of French Creek near Lake Erie. (TED REGENCIA)
President George W. Bush accepts his nomination for re-election, Sept. 2, 2004, at the Republican National Convention in New York. Bush and his vice president Richard Cheney faced Senators John Kerry and John Edwards, as the Democratic nominees for president and vice president during the general election, Nov. 2, 2004. (TED REGENCIA)
