Nicole Ross- Fencer from Daniel Woolfolk on Vimeo.

June 4, 2010- Becoming Columbia University Student Athlete of the Month is quite an honor. It is also a feat Nicole Ross, a fencer and Upper West Side native, has earned twice in 2010.

In March, she became the National Collegiate Athletic Association fencing champion in the foil, her competition weapon. Last year, at the 2009 Junior World Fencing Championships in Belfast, Ross helped the United States team’s first world win in her event, women’s foil fencing. “It was super exciting and gratifying for me,” said Ross, who will be fencing at the New York World Cup of Fencing June 18-20.

Ross graduated from Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on West 93rd Street.

Giovanni Falco, a barber at Astor Place Hairstylist in New York City, gives Antonio Mongiovi, a real estate agent, a short cut.

I shot a barber who cuts bald men’s hair at Astor Place near New York University for this story on Columbia News Service.

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I’ll be in Tucson with the New York Times Institute the first two weeks of January.  Here’s the story my school ran.

In one day, Panaderia Caotzingo bakery produces 270 pieces of pan de muerto, Spanish for "bread of the dead."

Nushin Rashidian and I recently spent an evening at a Mexican bakery in Queens preparing for The Day of the Dead. Check out our story at nyfoodchain.com.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch is back to work at his Manhattan office near Times Square after undergoing a quadruple bypass surgery in June. (Photo: Daniel Woolfolk)

My friend Joel Meares and I interviewed former Mayor Ed Koch in his Manhattan office for a story on eating on the campaign trail for nyfoodchain.com. The Huffington Post picked it up as did the Columbia Journalist. It’s got another portrait.

A climber at Central Park's Rat Rock. May 15, 2006. Photo by Christopher Lee

Bouldering in New York City’s Central Park at Rat Rock, August of 2009. Click below to hear the audio. I will be upgrading the audio player very soon. Please feel free to leave feedback, because this is one of the first audio pieces I have done.

Rat Rock

Here’s a shot from  an animal blessing at St. Martins Episcopal Church in Central Harlem on Sunday, Sept. 27.