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Festively fading into a new year | Scene Through the Lens

The dimming holiday scene

A lighted LED balloon seller passes through a portal in City Hall.
A lighted LED balloon seller passes through a portal in City Hall.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer

Scenes along South Broad Street - The Avenue of the Arts - on the last weekend of 2024.

City Hall’s tree lights reflected in the window of passing truck; party-goers arrive on a restaurants red carpet; and pedestrians pass through a protected tunnel on the sidewalk beneath a hotel undergoing renovation.

Happy New Year.

And If you missed it, here’s the link again: the traditional year-end look back over the what we’ve seen. Inquirer photographers and videographers captured tens of thousands of images in 2024. Here is our year-end “Best Of” gallery of some of our favorites. (photos were also in yesterday’s print edition).

» READ MORE: The Inquirer’s best photos of 2024

Since 1998 a black-and-white photo has appeared every Monday in staff photographer Tom Gralish’s “Scene Through the Lens” photo column in the print editions of The Inquirer’s local news section. Here are the most recent, in color: