Photos of 2024 on BSA – #10: Flaco the Owl a Folk Hero for a Minute in NYC

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 2024. 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!


2024 brought New York a new fine feathered superhero – an escaped tufted-eared Eurasian eagle-owl named Flaco whose daily plans became a focal point for people all over the city. We celebrated his liberation by vandals at the zoo, his sightings and adventures via social media, his tributes in paint and pen by artists and fans on the street, and we coined a description quoted by the New York Times. Sadly, we also mourned his loss and dedicated one of our Images of the Week to him in March.

Naito Oru. Manhattan, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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