NJ Advance Media staff's Photos of the Week for Oct. 9-15, 2015, on NJ.com. Watch video
Professional sports in and around New Jersey had some big moments this past week. The Mets will continue their postseason after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLDS. In football, after a rough start to the season, the Philadelphia Eagles won their first home game this season with a convincing 39-17 win over the Saints, and the New York Giants defeated the 49ers, 30-27, with seconds left in the game. Hockey season is just beginning, and NJ Advance Media Multimedia Specialist introduced the Devils' Zamboni ice man, while the Flyers earned two home-ice wins and honored retiree Kimmo Timonen.
Photographer Lori M. Nichols captured images from The Race of Gentlemen, which celebrated America's history of hot rodding. Vintage cars and motorcycles took to the beach in Wildwood to race each other along the water's edge in this weekend-long event.
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In news, a South Jersey town was rocked when a 3-year-old boy was reported missing early Tuesday morning, and found dead three hours later a half-mile from his home. The community gathered in Haddon Township that evening to hold a vigil for Brendan Creato.
A statue to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was unveiled in Newark Wednesday, and photojournalist Ed Murray was there to document it, 51 years to the day after the civil rights leader was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
More than 150,000 fans flocked to New York City to attend New York Comic Con 2015, and photographer Aristide Economopoulos spent three days documenting the four-day event. After shooting well over a thousand frames, a few of his favorite photos can be found in the gallery above.
Check back next Friday for more of our top photos. Let us know which ones are your favorite in the comment section below.
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