In the summer months, annual block parties spread out across the five boroughs of the city. The air is rich with the scent of charcoal smoke and grilled foods, the doppler effect in play as a cacophony of music, voices, and laughter refract in the open spaces between buildings block after block. Adults convene around stoops and grills with lawn chairs and beverages in tow. Kids gleefully run up and down the street, lobbing water balloons, dueling with water guns, and frolicking through the stream of opened fire hydrants. This year when I got out to photograph the goings-on in my immediate community, I chose to focus on the kids of Harman Street in Ridgewood, Queens. In an effort to simply observe, I refrained from asking anyone to stop and pose for portraits. The 20 frames shown here are an authentic look at the youthful jubilation of being a kid in the summer.