Todd Maisel - Contributing editor - FORMER BREAKING NEWS EDITOR, AM New York - Visual Journalist - NYPPA

Before becoming the Mayor of the City of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio was named Bill Wilhelm. He was a strong activist for student rights and at this rally on Washington Square East, he rallied with students for tuition cap at what will become the most expensive private college in the city. March 1981, by Todd Maisel, contact Polaris for image purchase at 212-967-5656, Copyright Todd Maisel

Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama made ground zero their common ground for one rare day, free of politics and infused with memory on September 11, 2008.

Putting their partisan contest on a respectful hold, they walked together Thursday into the great pit where the World Trade Center once stood and, as one, honored the dead from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. By Todd Maisel, NY Daily News

Before becoming the Mayor of the City of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio was named Bill Wilhelm. He was a strong activist for student rights and at this rally on Washington Square East, he rallied with students for tuition cap at what will become the most expensive private college in the city. March 1981, by Todd Maisel, contact Polaris for image purchase at 212-967-5656, Copyright Todd Maisel

Before becoming the an assistant district attorney in New Jersey, Dawn Solari was a strong activist for student rights and at this rally on Washington Square East, he rallied with students for tuition cap at what will become the most expensive private college in the city. March 1981, by Todd Maisel, contact Polaris for image purchase at 212-967-5656, Copyright Todd Maisel

Before becoming the Mayor of the City of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio was named Bill Wilhelm. He was a strong activist for student rights and at this rally on Washington Square East, he rallied with students for tuition cap at what will become the most expensive private college in the city. March 1981, by Todd Maisel, contact Polaris for image purchase at 212-967-5656, Copyright Todd Maisel

Trump shakes hands with Jim Romano, a long time Staten Island journalist. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) Donald Trump received an endorsement from the New York Veteran Police Association at the Hilton Garden Inn in Staten Island on April 17, 2016. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News)

Donald Trump received an endorsement from the New York Veteran Police Association at the Hilton Garden Inn in Staten Island on April 17, 2016. Lou Telano is president of the group with mustache right. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News)

Mayor Edward I Koch presided over a public meeting in Brooklyn in 1984 where he faced a tough crowd with patience. By Todd Maisel

Before becoming the an assistant district attorney in New Jersey, Dawn Solari was a strong activist for student rights and at this meeting in Loeb Student Center at NYU where she rallied with students for tuition cap at what will become the most expensive private college in the city. March 1981, by Todd Maisel, contact Polaris for image purchase at 212-967-5656, Copyright Todd Maisel

Before becoming the an assistant district attorney in New Jersey, Dawn Solari was a strong activist for student rights and at this rally on Washington Square East, he rallied with students for tuition cap at what will become the most expensive private college in the city. March 1981, by Todd Maisel, contact Polaris for image purchase at 212-967-5656, Copyright Todd Maisel

Before becoming the Mayor of the City of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio, the former Bill Wilhelm, was a strong activist for student rights and at this rally at New York University on Washington Square East, he rallied with students for tuition cap at what will become the most expensive private college in the city. March 1981, by Todd Maisel, contact Polaris for image purchase at 212-967-5656, Copyright Todd Maisel

For one night only: Pope Francis headlined Madison Square Garden.

And he awed an estimated crowd of 20,000-plus that packed the Manhattan sports and entertainment arena, celebrating a Mass in which he used a homily in his native Spanish to celebrate religious faith in New York City and other urban areas. September 25, 2015. By Todd Maisel, NY Daily News

Mayor Edward I Koch, flanked by the former Councilman Sal Albanese, encounters a constituent intent on expressing his opinion at a Brooklyn town hall meeting in 1984. By Todd Maisel

Mayor Edward I Koch presided over a public meeting in Brooklyn in 1984 where he faced a tough crowd with patience. By Todd Maisel

Actor Richard Dreyfuss with a young child and black lab at Prospect Park Wolman Skating Rink in the Brooklyn Park January 1984. By Todd Maisel

Brooklyn political boss Meade Esposito with political leaders run the borough with an iron hand at a meeting in 1985. By Todd Maisel

CNN Personality Newsman Anderson Cooper takes a breather in during the Sago Mine disaster which was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, United States, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped 13 miners for nearly two days; only one survived. By Todd Maisel, NY Daily News

Singer Gloria Estefan sings her heart out for Pope Francis Pope Francis who headlined Madison Square Garden.

And he awed an estimated crowd of 20,000-plus that packed the Manhattan sports and entertainment arena, celebrating a Mass in which he used a homily in his native Spanish to celebrate religious faith in New York City and other urban areas September 25, 2015. By Todd Maisel, NY Daily Newa

Singer performer Jennifer Hudson sings for one night only for Pope Francis where he headlined Madison Square Garden September 25, 2015..

And he awed an estimated crowd of 20,000-plus that packed the Manhattan sports and entertainment arena, celebrating a Mass in which he used a homily in his native Spanish to celebrate religious faith in New York City and other urban areas. By Todd Maisel, NY Daily News

Pope Benedict the XVI visited Ground Zero this morning on this his final day in New York City. Pope receives survivors of World Trade Center attack. Views were difficult at best. April 20, 2008. He is accompanied by Edward Cardinal Egan. By Todd Maisel, NY Daily News