For those who haven’t yet made it to the 9/11 Memorial, there’s one thing you can be sure they’re serious about: security. Not only do visitors have to be registered for tickets in advance, but also must go through several highly surveilled checkpoints, including airport-style metal detectors and X-ray scanners. Read more »
Photographer Jonathan Leder (Jacques Magazine’s resident lensman) just released a new set of his tastefully risqué photos, this time starring model/artist Marlo Lavonne and her nostalgic 1972 Honda CB750 motorcycle. The black & white shots taken in Woodstock feature Lavonne in a series of suggestive poses on the bike, wearing a scant assortment of garters, fishnets, and a bra with the nipples cut out. Hells Angels, eat your heart out!
A proposed $27 million redesign of Times Square’s growing pedestrian-only sections will separate “free-flowing walkways” for New Yorkers and central plazas for tourists, providing for “different speeds at which people can move” through the crowded hub. Read more »
Last week, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly put out an internal memo, instructing fellow officers to respect the 1977 law and issue summonses, not arrests for people caught with small amounts of weed that aren’t in public view, like they’ve been doing during stop and frisks. Read more »
Michael Moore stopped by the Occupy Wall Street protest on Monday evening, Susan Sarandon Tuesday morning, and tonight, the people were treated to the words of intellectual renaissance man, Dr. Cornel West. Check out his “spiritual breakdancing” techniques.
This is not a post-Apocalyptic movie set but a gutted car-garnished dump that’s still under Queensbridge. (Photo: Fresh Paint NYC/Flickr)
This video wins the internet. “Inspired” by this time lapse cut from NASA’s photos of the Earth from the International Space Station, YouTube user isoeph bit it… with lots more woah. Check out our plannet aglow with neon ripples of Aurora Borealis. Magic. Read more »
The Wall Street Journal profiled several the costumed characters in Times Square and reports the most shocking of news: Most of them are illegal aliens from Mexico and South America. That’s right, even Mickey Mouse is an undocumented immigrant. Elmo too. And that’s wrong! Read more »
Copenhagen art crew Superflex has created a “life-sized, detailed, and functional replica” of the executive restroom of the New York JPMorgan Chase headquarters inside Olympic Restaurant on Delancey, so any purveyors of the LES Greek joint can experience being in the seat of authority whilst shitting like kings and “contemplating the structures of power that become imbued in even the most unassuming architectural spaces.” Read more »
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