Best of the East

Welcome to the inaugural edition of AP’s Best of the East photo gallery.

Each month, Associated Press photographers report from high profile events and everyday life, sports stadiums and public venues. 

News, sports and feature photography from AP’s 10-state East region serves to connect the viewer with the subject in a dynamic and meaningful way.

January 2017 began with celebratory masses gathered in New York’s Times Square to welcome in the new year.  It ended with masses gathered in the streets to protest the early days of the Trump administration. 

Thank you for taking a look at some highlights of our January report. Be sure to check back each month for more curated galleries from the US East, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

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Revelers celebrate the new year as confetti flies over New York's Times Square as seen from the Marriott Marquis, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Revelers celebrate the new year as confetti flies over New York's Times Square as seen from the Marriott Marquis, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Snow falls as a jogger, framed by the Brooklyn Bridge, runs underneath the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive overpass, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in lower Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

A lone plow clears a playground in lower Manhattan, photographed from New York's One World Trade Center building, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. As the East Coast waits to thaw out from a weekend icy mess, another storm is bringing rain and the potential of the worst flooding in more than a decade to the West coast. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

A ferry travels on the East river from Manhattan to Brooklyn during the storm in New York, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. From California to the Deep South to the Northeast, millions of Americans are contending with death and destruction from damaging January weather. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

A woman walks against heavy wind in downtown New York, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Millions of people from the mid-Atlantic through New England were being advised to hunker down as a nor'easter moves up the coast. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Bibi, a 17-year old pregnant Nile Hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, swims in her enclosure, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, in Cincinnati. Dr. Jessye Wojtusik, a reproductive biologist with the Zoo, led her team to discover Bibi was pregnant using ultrasound, producing the first ever image to diagnose pregnancy in a Nile Hippo. Hippos are notoriously difficult to train and immensely powerful. The team worked for months to condition Bibi to feed in a regular position that would allow for a weekly ultrasound procedure. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

A pedestrian walks along Gay Street in West Chester, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Chester is the richest county in Pennsylvania; it is majority Republican, but Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won here easily in 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

SMU's Ben Moore (00) and Cincinnati's Troy Caupain, second from left, Sterling Brown (3), Semi Ojeleye (33) and Jacob Evans (1) battle for an inbound ball during the final second of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Cincinnati. Cincinnati won 66-64. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Xavier's Edmond Sumner (4) shoots against Cincinnati's Nysier Brooks (33) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Boston Celtics forward Jonas Jerebko reacts after being hit by Houston Rockets guard James Harden during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game in Boston, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Harden was charged with a flagrant foul. The Celtics defeated the Rockets 120-109. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Philadelphia 76ers guard Gerald Henderson (12) falls as he tries to block a shot by Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart (36) in the second quarter of an NBA basketball game, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

New England Patriots cornerback Logan Ryan (26) breaks up a pass intended for Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Eli Rogers (17) during the second half of the AFC championship NFL football game, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Demonstrators march across 42nd Street during a women's march, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in New York. The march is being held in solidarity with similar events taking place in Washington and around the nation. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Rutgers University students and supporters gather for Muslim Prayers during a rally to express discontent with President Donald Trump's executive order halting some immigrants from entering the United States on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in New Brunswick, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

A worker cleans the windows of the Ivanka Trump Collection in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Izzy Berdan, of Boston, center, wears an American flags as he chants slogans with other demonstrators during a rally against President Donald Trump's order that restricts travel to the U.S., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Boston. Trump signed an executive order Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 that bans legal U.S. residents and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. for 90 days and puts an indefinite hold on a program resettling Syrian refugees. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

A protester holds up a cutout sign during a protest of President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Corey Perrine)

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