Photo of the Day: End-of-Winter Dreams, Bryant Park, NYC

Late yesterday morning, I was passing Bryant Park when I took the accompanying picture. I was surprised that so many people came out for this ultimate winter scene—we’re still only two-thirds through the season, but it has been so mild (the 3.2 inches of snow that fell in Central Park on Feb. 13 were the most since 2022) that it feels like spring will come early this year.

The organizers of the park’s “Winter Village,” organized by Bank of America, seem to be acknowledging this: Activity on this 17,000- sq. ft. rink will cease after March 3.

With ongoing climate change, the moments when children and their parents can enjoy skating and just hanging out are passing, like the sweet dreams of youth and innocence, always too evanescent.

Photo of the Day: Rink, Brookfield Place, NYC

I took this photograph on Monday afternoon not at one of the usual ice-skating rinks in New York—say, at Rockefeller Center, or Trump Rink in Central Park—but rather, at the Rink at Brookfield Place, just south of Tribeca along the Hudson River, in Lower Manhattan.