We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2025. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

It’s not all doom and gloom, but sometimes you may get that impression. In New York—like everywhere else—economic stress, global chaos, and general social burnout are just kind of… ever present. And yet we yearn to celebrate the New Year! Let’s do it.

The only fundamental mistake is assuming you’re alone in these gloomy feelings. You’re not. Say hi. Check in. Be decent. It won’t save the world, but it does mess with the algorithm.