And his name is Steve Cuozzo. In Thursday’s paper, the notoriously salty columnist wrote a fact-free piece about how the traffic-calming pedestrian plazas and bike lanes on Broadway are killing businesses north of 47th Street, turning the area into a “wasteland.” Read more »
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei has accepted an honorary professorship from Berlin’s University of the Arts for the course of three years. Since his release, his passport was taken away and he can’t leave Beijing, so it’s possible he’ll give his lectures via Skype. Read more »
The other day, the owner of a Brooklyn pizza place in my neighborhood was happily taping up the “A” grade he was given by NYC’s health department in his window after passing a restaurant inspection, but I still have no intentions of eating there. Although it’s good to know that the kitchen is relatively clean and the food is kept at the right temperatures, does any of that matter if he collects money with the same unwashed hands he uses to make pizza with? That’s an “F” no matter how fresh the dough is and to me, casts doubt on the whole grading system, since the final product remains entirely untested.
Has it really been a year? Ukrainian FEMENistas took their annual provocative bath in the public fountains of Kiev to protest the systematic, citywide shutdowns of water service in the summer. “Goodbye Unwashed Ukraine!” Read more »
NYC man-about-town Joey Boots shot this post-accident footage from the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, which at first, is exactly what you’d expect of a car crash: Crowds gather, crack jokes, and make sure everyone is okay. But then the unexpected happens. Read more »
A boarded up restaurant in the East Village doubles as a canvas for citizen graffiti about the “class war” being waged in the LES. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMAL New York)
Banksy’s 10-year-old ‘Gorilla in a Pink Mask’ piece on a side of a Muslim center in Bristol was accidentally buffed, when a site employee “mistook” the valuable “street art” for “vandalism” the Daily Mail reports. That’s right. An illegal stencil is clearly not vandalism when it’s slapped with a price tag worth thousands of pounds because someone famous did it… right? Read more »
Just when it looked like only the city that was getting ripped off by whatever security company installed all those overly redundant surveillance cameras in subway stations for the MTA, buses now as well, the feds easily upped the ante with these hulking Department of Homeland Security boxes. Read more »
It’s about time Hunter S. Thompson got canonized! Artist Neal Fox’s new project takes the notoriety of cultural heroes and renders them as church-style, stained glass windows. See Serge Gainsbourg wrapped in nude fan-floozies, Albert Hoffman adorned with LSD molecules and William S. Burroughs surrounded by his junkie props and teethy asshole nightmares. Iconic! “Beware of God,” Neal Fox, Jul 17 – Aug 10, Daniel Blau Ltd., London
“If you don’t like wealthy people or successful, profit-making businesses, you are not going to have a city,” says Bloomberg in the raw footage of My Brooklyn while stabilized rent housing gets systemically plowed down to build luxury condos. Read more »
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