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!

Street art doesn’t only regale walls, it often reflects us, flaws and all. Call it protest or simply commentary, this piece landed in 2025 right in the middle of the contradiction of our moment. Artist Clown Soldier simplifies the scene for effect: masked ICE agents attacking Liberty, roughing up a powerful symbol of freedom at Ellis Island, the same gateway generations of immigrants passed through to seek a new life and to build this country from the ground up. Now we are asking ourselves, what has changed, and how did it happen?

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

~ from the plaque on the Statue of Liberty

To all those who consult the Bible:

Matthew 25:35–40
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me… Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”