Rob Bennett

In this week's photos from around New York, the city celebrates Pride Week, politicians stump on primary day and summer pool season kicks off.

In this week’s photos from around New York, Tony season brings customers to poster shops in Manhattan, live acts take off in New York clubs and Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses a church in Brownsville.

In this week’s photos from around New York, an old space shuttle gets a new home, crowds flock to watch the transit of Venus, as mother gets a prison sentence, and more.

In this week's photos from around New York, cigar lovers take advantage of a private park, the city's sunbathers kick off summer, a prankster pours soap into a fountain, and more.

In this week’s photos from around New York, tall ships sail into New York for Fleet Week, an exhibit of women artists opens on the Upper East Side, several apartments in a Fifth Avenue mansion hit the market and more.

In this week’s photos from around New York, taking pictures from New York rooftops, the circus raises its big top, police arrest Queens gang members, and more.

In this week’s photos from around New York, dinosaurs are unloaded in New Jersey, handbell ensembles perform, activists release black balloons at an Apple store and more.

A model apatosaurus, left, and ankylosaurus, right, were unloaded from trailers Wednesday to be assembled and set in place at Field Station: Dinosaurs in Secaucus, N.J. The dinosaur theme park is set to open in late May. (See related article.) (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal )

NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, with space shuttle Enterprise mounted atop, flew up the Hudson River past the New York City skyline Friday on its way to JFK International Airport. (See related article.) (Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Activists from Greenpeace released black balloons into the glass cube of the Apple store at Fifth Avenue near 58th Street on Tuesday to protest the absence of renewable energy fueling Apple’s cloud-based data storage service. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal )

Four handbell ensembles from New York and Virginia came together at Riverside Church on Sunday for the 34th Annual English Handbell Festival. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)

Ben Nguyen of Vietnam shook hands with U.S. Congressman Jose E. Serrano in an event organized by Citizenship and Immigration Services at a special Earth Day naturalization ceremony at the Bronx Zoo on Sunday. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

The lap pool in the basement of a newly built townhouse on East 74th Street. (See related article.) (Andrew Hinderaker for The Wall Street Journal)

Police on Monday wrapped up the excavation of a basement on Prince Street, where law enforcement officers had been looking for clues in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz. (See related article.) (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

Police arrested a member of AIDS activist group ACT UP at Wall Street and Broadway, near the New York Stock Exchange, on Wednesday. AIDS activists joined supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement in a march through lower Manhattan. (See related article.) (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

A group of Occupy Wall Street protesters were evicted from a Lower Manhattan space that had served as an informal headquarters on Monday. Here, the group gathered their possessions on the sidewalk while they figured out where to move next. (See related article (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal )

Nine people were injured and several trees, street signs, and newspaper stands were damaged in a car crash at the northwest corner of Bryant Park late on Saturday. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)

Donette Skinner, right, 13, cried as she walked home in Harlem. One of her best friends, Annie Fryar, was shot and killed early on Tuesday. Police said Steven Murray fatally shot his teenage half-sister as she slept, turned the gun on his mother and then confronted police in a frenetic shootout on a nearby street. (See related article.) (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)

New York Photos of the Week: April 15-21
In this week’s photos from around New York, the fruit of a search for the perfect doughnut, the latest in the Etan Patz case, a look at one of the city’s oldest Dixieland-style jazz band, and more.

The scene at Wooster and Prince streets in Manhattan on Thursday after FBI agents and NYPD personnel descended on the area. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York Police Department are looking for clues in the unsolved 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

Friends mourned outside the home of Joanne Brown at 45-08 189th street in Queens Sunday after she died in a house fire. (PJ Smith for The Wall Street Journal)

Tom Farrington and Luis Recinos of Tom Farrington Designs in Stamford, Conn., arranged a display at the New York Flower Show, hosted Tuesday at the Horticultural Society of New York. This year’s theme was ‘Couture en Fleur.’ (Emily Berl for The Wall Street Journal )

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly showed off a knife used to stab Officer Eder Loor in the skull Tuesday. Officer Loor was hospitalized and had emergency surgery; he is expected to make a full recovery. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

Limbo dancers from the UniverSoul Circus put on a brief performance at Super Wings NY II on Utica Ave in Brooklyn on Tuesday, to promote the group’s upcoming shows at Floyd Bennett Field, running April 18-29. (Emily Berl for The Wall Street Journal)

Engineers removed three fighter jets from the flight deck the USS Intrepid, docked on Manhattan’s West Side, in order to make room for the Space Shuttle Enterprise, arriving on April 23. (CS Muncy)

Sweet sour seitan with basmati rice pilaf at Candle Cafe West, 2427 Broadway in Manhattan. (Byron Smith for The Wall Street Journal)

Joe Licari, 78, on the clarinet with The Grove Street Stompers at Arthur’s Tavern, 57 Grove St. in Manhattan. For the past half-century, the same Dixieland-style jazz band has held the same weekly slot at the same Manhattan nightclub. (Andrew Hinderaker for The Wall Street Journal)

Art students from Bloomfield College worked on a mural under an overpass on Broad Street in Bloomfield, N.J., Wednesday. A mixed-use plan intended to revitalize the main business district in Bloomfield has yet to begin, nearly a decade after it was proposed. (Emily Berl for The Wall Street Journal)

Members of the I.S. 318 Chess Club played a practice match at their Brooklyn middle school Wednesday. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)

A drink called the Eastern Block at Bourgeois Pig, 387 Court St. in Brooklyn. (Byron Smith for The Wall Street Journal)

Caitlyn Girdusky, daughter of New York Police Officer Michael Girdusky, held her father’s hand as she greeted a police dog at the opening of a new NYPD K9 transit facility on Northern Boulevard in Queens Wednesday. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)

Hakeem Jeffries, a Democratic front-runner in the upcoming congressional election, paused for a photo after greeting some young men around the corner from his campaign office on Fulton Street in Brooklyn Monday. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)

A carrot-flavored cake doughnut at the Doughnut Plant bakery in Chelsea, New York. (Ramin Talaie for The Wall Street Journ)

Richard Hell, known for his stints in seminal New York bands Television and the Voidoids, will introduce a screening of Robert Bresson’s 1977 film ‘The Devil, Probably,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. (Ramin Talaie for The Wall Street Journal)

Beachgoers enjoyed unseasonably warm weather at Coney Island in Brooklyn on Monday. (Emily Berl for The Wall Street Journal)

In this week’s photos from around New York, two dogs prepare for a ‘wedding,’ the Orchestre Septentrional performs in Brooklyn, Mayor Michael Bloomberg kisses Miss Piggy and more.

A woman received support from other bystanders at First Avenue and 119th Street. A 23-year-old armed robbery suspect was shot and killed Thursday by a retired New York Police Department lieutenant who happened upon a Harlem shootout, authorities said. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

Gwen Rakotovao, a 25-year-old dancer and model from France, got her makeup done by Michelle Coursen for a profile picture for the social-networking site Badoo. (Andrew Hinderaker for The Wall Street Journal)

Anonda Olchewsky, 6, looked at tortoises in the reptile house at the Bronx Zoo April 5. (Mark Abramson for The Wall Street Journal)

From left, halibut, mahi mahi, and tuna ceviche and popcorn with lemon oil at Pampano Botaneria on East 49th Street. (Agaton Strom for The Wall Street Journal)

Michel Tassy sang during the Orchestre Septentrional performance in Brooklyn April 7. The Orchestre Septentrional has been making music since 1948 and is perhaps Haiti’s quintessential big band. (Kate Lord/The Wall Street Journal)

A tablescape called ‘Harbor Island’ designed by Alessandra Branca was on view at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House’s Annual Spring Gala Wednesday at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan. (Claudio Papapietro for The Wall Street Journal)

Dingoes occupy the new dingo kennel at the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

All three of New York’s public library systems are conducting or planning expansive renovations that reflect a shift in whom they serve, and how. Shown, the Queens Library’s Discovery Center, which opened last year. (Mark Abramson for The Wall Street Journal)

Braised Brussels sprouts, pancetta and oregano at Indie, a new cafe at the Film Society at Lincoln Center. (Kate Lord/The Wall Street Journa)

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas has a drink at Cafiero Lussier on East Second Street. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

The smoked Gouda and fig grilled cheese sandwich at Say Cheese at 142 West 83rd St. in Manhattan. (Byron Smith for The Wall Street Journal)

Dogs Piper, left, and Boo, right, sat on either side of their owner, Orfeh, at Kleinfeld Bridal in Manhattan April 5. In mid-May, the two dogs will ‘wed’ at an event meant to bring awareness to animal adoption. (Rob Bennett)

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg kissed Miss Piggy as Kermit the Frog watched at a news conference in New York Friday. Mr. Bloomberg announced the Muppets are the city’s official ‘Family Ambassadors,’ to encourage families to travel to the city. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

In this week’s photos from around New York, cheerleaders practice at the Northern Manhattan Uptown Games, a crane collapses at a construction site, getting the Great Lawn ready and more.

A crane collapsed on Tuesday at a construction site at 11th Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Manhattan, killing one worker and injuring three others. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

Danh Ong, a grounds technician for the Central Park Conservancy, mowed the Great Lawn on Wednesday in preparation for this weekend’s opening to the public. (Mark Abramson for The Wall Street Journal)

Firefighters put out a blaze in the basement of Macy’s flagship store in Manhattan on Wednesday. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

Mashed avocado on seeded bread, served with pickled carrot slaw and cherry tomato jam at Jack’s Wife Freda, 224 Lafayette St. (Agaton Strom for The Wall Street Journal )

Troy Flynn, vice president of operations for the Prudential Center, draped a New Jersey Devils banner over a World War II-era truck in Newark. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)

A construction worker was killed after the second floor partially collapsed Tuesday at a home at 40 Frank Court in the Gerritsen Beach section of Brooklyn. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

The Margherita D.O.P. pizza at Otto Enoteca Pizzeria, 1 Fifth Ave. (Byron Smith for The Wall Street Journal)

The ‘Rainbow Room’ at the Belasco Theatre, created for the cast of ‘End of the Rainbow.’ (Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal)

The Truffle Mushroom Pizza with sheep ricotta, mascarpone goat cheese and arugula at Sons Of Essex, 133 Essex St. (Agaton Strom for The Wall Street Journal )

Cheerleaders from P.S. 189 practiced between events at the Northern Manhattan Uptown Games at the Washington Heights Armory on Sunday. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)