2006-09-28T15:27:00.000-04:00

One of my first assignments at the Monitor this summer was to take photos of the No. 7 train that runs from Times Square to Flushing, Queens. The No. 7 has been long-referred to as the "International Express" because it runs though such diverse ethnic communities. One of our other photogs had already take the train photos, my job was to take the neighborhood photos. Tough assignment for someone who doesn't know New York at all. Here are a few that never found a place in the print edition of the story, but I like them none the less.

Dalai Romano, 3, and Dayana Soto, 14, escape the city heat in a pool they set up between their apartment buildings near the Bliss Street stop along the No. 7.

Marco Barreto waits for his wife at the Elmhurst Subway stop.

Raidah Islam, left, and Steven Rios, center, walk under the shadow of the Unisphere that was built for the '64-'65 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens.

Left to right, Tahia Uddin, 11, Naema Rahman, 12, Mahbuba Rahman, 14, and Sumreen Hussain, 16, react to a friend's attempt to climb on the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Ana Pacora and her daughter, Alyssa Pacora, 6 mo., wait outside of a relative's house in Woodside, Queens. Pacora and her family, left to right in background, Priscilla Berna Maria Castillon, Consuelo Berna, and Issaiah Molina are awaiting an uncle to celebrate a family birthday. Consuelo Berna, the first in the family to come from Peru states that the neighborhoods of Queens have changed since she came to the US almost 30 years ago. She says that she used to be one of the only immigrants in her neighborhood.

Offerings at a Puja in Flushing, Queens.

Subway passengers walk towards and away from the No. 7 platform.

I don't know who this person is, but I liked the photo. When I tried to get his name it was like he could neither see or hear me. I followed as he weaved his way through the crowded street to the place where his apparent boss was selling things that he is carrying in this photo. The boss would not talk to me either.

A member of a drum and fife group prepares to participate in a memorial day parade.

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