Winning Shutterbug

By [Dan Rivoli] Galo Delgado"s photo, featured on the cover of this week"s issue, took home first place in the Second Avenue photo contest. He won $200, thanks to the Second Avenue Business Association. Delgado, who lives in the neighborhood, has been watching the area transform as construction crews build the Second Avenue subway. Two winters ago, in the room where he grew up, he hung a tripod and camera out the window and snapped this photograph of the construction, 14 stories below, using a remote. â??It"s an eyesore, he said of the debris and machinery. â??If you go online and look at Second Avenue subway photos, there is no beauty in them. I don"t know how, but I showed that photo to plenty of people and they all find it to be beautiful. Second prize went to Caroline Harris, third prize to Steve Mason and fourth prize to Christie Brandao.