C&C requested

From top to bottom, 1, 3 and 4 make a nice triptych; they each have an element of drama about them. For some reason, they remind me of old-skool Ilford 400.

 

I like them all except for the wires crossing through the middle of the frame. However, I notice you isolated the truck and car between the wires which is a nice touch given the constraints.

My favorite is probably #3.

 

I really like the 1st and 3rd together... the 2nd looks a little out of place, I think its because the subject is entirely clear (no darkness, no snow, no real drama as mentioned above).

 

All four are interesting shots.

In the first one, the light in the upper right corner is a bit distracting. I think the whole shot would improve if you could edit it to not be that strong, since that attracted my eye the most and I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intention.

The second one seems a bit plain and I think could be a lot better if you edit out at least a couple of the wires. They are just a bit distracting.

The third and fourth work well, since like the poster above said, you did a good job of framing the car and the truck between the wires.

My favorite from the set would be the first one IF the light in the corner wouldn't be so strong. It just has this dramatic feel to it.

Overall, I like the set and if you could do the changes to one and two, then it would be even better (I'm no master with Photoshop or photo editing, so I don't know how feasible it is).

 

I'm going to look at each one outside of the others around it.

For me #1 is too dark. I think that's one that would actually look better in color and not black and white. If your lights are anything like mine, they give off a sepia type color to everything. I'd find that more interesting than B&W.

#2 just doesn't have enough snow in it yet to be interesting for me. There's also very little action here. There's no cars and little snow falling.

#3 is similar to #2, though the falling snow livens things up more. The car is not that interesting, though, because it's just a car.

#4 is my favorite. Lots of snow coverage covering up all the lines on the buildings. It also changes the wires from "in the way" to some interesting curved lines that provide a contrast to the straight lines of the buildings. The snow plow is a more interesting vehicle because it only happens when there is snow, and it provides some action to the picture.

 

To me (at least) I think the orange color is more interesting than B&W here. That's just the way it looks! The glow is enhanced by the snow on the ground reflecting it, too. With the B&W version I think you lose too much of that.

 

Hey is that a snow plow in #4? Must not be in NYC then

In all seriousness, #3 is my preference.

 

I like 1 and 4 best!

I like the atmosphere of 1, plus the way the three sets of lights form an implied triangle in contrast to the explicit horizontal, vertical and oblique lines. Personally, I like those lights, although the top right hand one is too strong relative to the others. I prefer it B&W as having the lights seeming the same colour strengthens this sense of a triangle, and also the streetside lights on the original look too separated for this effect to work well.

I think 2 is boring because my eye just gets led up the road and gets stuck at the end of it. I think it needs either a vehicle/person on the road to provide some kind of 'pausing point' for the eye or at least a dark patch at the end combined with a nearby light patch (as on 1) to drag the eye away from the end of the road.

3 has a vehicle on the road to provide such a pausing point, but I don't find the car itself interesting, and since the car's headlights are the only source of artificial light in the scene my eyes just get stuck on it. If some rooms were lit up as brightly as the headlights it may have countered that problem.

4 I like due to the interest of the vehicle, its framing between the wires and its very dark windscreen. If it weren't for that strategic patch of black then I think one half of the photo would be too uniformly white and the other too uniformly dark to work in B&W.

4 beats out 1 for me, but I like them both!