New York: when the city sleeps.

The Wall Street Journal sent several photographers out overnight to shoot New York City during the hours when most of its citizens are sleeping.

Here are photos of those awake when most of the city is not.

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Delivery man Rich Lopes carries a stack of newspapers to a vendor on Wall Street at 5:57 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

A food vendor walks up 11th Avenue near 47th Street. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

Lesley Shannon, 24, and Brandon Hollely, 29, kiss at the corner of 27th Street and Broadway. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

Early morning at the carriage horse stables on 48th Street and 11th Avenue (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

A man works on his laptop in front of the Apple Store on 14th Street at 4:46 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

Passing time at the TKTS booth in Times Square (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

The dance floor at Enid’s in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

Macier Radman, in the blact hat, takes an order at a Punjab food cart on 27th Street and 5th Avenue. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

On the steps of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

Italian tourists sit on the curb on 9th Avenue and 14th Street after leaving a bar at 4:58 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

Two couples have intimate moments on Avenue A. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

A man purchases a copy of The Wall Street Journal from a vendor on Wall Street at 5:54 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

People exit Port Authority on Eighth Avenue. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

The Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

A young man gets sick on 2nd Street near Avenue A. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

Police officers line up for roll call at Madison Square Park at 5:04 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

A traffic officer crosses Canal Street at 6:47a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal!)

Street sweepers clean along Wall Street at 6:25 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal!)

One last drink in Union Square around 5:30 a.m. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

Outside Grand Central Terminal (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

Street trash on Broadway north of Union Square (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

Inside Grand Central Terminal (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

Biking across the Brooklyn Bridge (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

Steam escapes from a manhole in Times Square late at night. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

Raising the flag on Broad Street in the financial district (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

Chairs sit unattended in Bryant Park. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

Source: here.