Street-style photographer Watching New York knows you’re tired of all the influencers

There are some obvious places to go to see great style in New York City.

SoHo is one of them — not only because of its luxury boutiques, but also because of the streetwear-inflected brands that have begun to fill in the neighborhood’s edges.

The L train and Chinatown’s eastern reaches have become stomping grounds for a certain set of young styles, from workwear and streetwear to more discordant Gen-Z styles.

Johnny Cirillo’s favorite corner is located just south of the Bedford Avenue train station in Williamsburg. That’s where the photographer spends up to 10 hours a day, several days a week, shooting thousands of pictures of passersby who catch his eye.

He catalogs the most interesting looks on his Instagram account, @WatchingNewYork, which has developed a following of over 1.3 million in a few short years.

Cirillo features mostly young, cool New Yorkers on Watching New York, though he includes many styles, bodies, and aesthetics. He often organizes posts into themed slides, featuring cowboy boots one day, fringe the next. He’s often among the first to document emerging and established trends like the coquette aesthetic or monochrome neutrals as they pour back and forth from the streets to social media.

Abrams is releasing a book of Cirillo’s photographs on April 16, with a foreword by his fan Gigi Hadid.

The account @WatchingNewYork was born from one of Cirillo’s biggest inspirations. The Queens-born photographer worked in restaurants in the 2000s making ends meet, and would shoot wedding, baby and engagement photos on the side.

He took the first photo for what became his full-time job as a street style photographer in 2016, on the day that the beloved New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham died.

“That’s what sparked it, that day,” Cirillo said. “I went out and shot some photos in SoHo. It was a…