On December 28, 2025, I happened across a very impressive snow sculpture of the head of a bearded king with a crown on Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn (NYC).

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/seeing-atlantic-avenue-snow-king-12-29-25/

Unfortunately, I did not stop to take a photo (it was getting late and there were people gathered around). The next morning, I saw an article about the sculpture in the New York Post. I decided to walk back out that afternoon and see how the Snow King was doing. As you can see, he was a little worse for wear 20-22 hours after I saw him the first time (he looked like the newspaper photo linked in my article when I first saw him), but I thought the weathered snow king had its own dignity and charm (albeit he could have done without the dirt and car exhaust tarnish).

NLJ article on my photo and story:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/weathered-snow-king-sculpture-in-brooklyn/

(For any open source mobile OS fans out there, I took this photo with the Ubuntu Touch camera app on my Google Pixel 3a XL.)

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