Check out this behind the scenes video from Treats! magazine’s latest photoshoot, an editorial titled ‘Breaking Away’ which features an assortment of topless models on brightly colored bikes. Basically, every guy in Williamsburg’s dream. Read more »
If you’ve always wanted to know what your pup sees when he’s cruising for butt sniffs, it’s lots of downward leaning “aw” faces, foot fetishist angles of shiny shoes and underskirt crotches. Warning: It’s cut to witch house. Read more »
Last night, a few hours before Jesse Jackson helped protesters save a medical tent from getting evicted out of Zuccotti Park, I spoke with an East Village man who has set up his own occupation of sorts. Meet Chris Grosek, the man behind Occupy Lego Land. Read more »
One of the pervs who has been terrorizing women in Brooklyn was finally caught while practicing on himself earlier this morning. Read more »
Classic ’80s Subway Photography
Photographer Bruce Davidson captured the Civil Rights movement and graced Beastie Boys album covers, but it’s his Subway series that’s getting some more much-deserved recognition. With graffiti as a layered, dense backdrop when not the action in progress, his gorgeously composed classics are definitive of an era. Read more »
For starters, it’s not safe. Apparently the act of clinging onto the side of a speeding subway train—like one person did in a video that has gone viral—as it snakes through narrow tunnels has some dangers associated with it. The Metro paper spoke to a Brooklyn man who used to “surf” the subways back in the day, but he only did it on elevated lines and stopped when one of his friends died. He says it’s nothing new and vandals used to love it. “Older generations used to do it a lot more. It went hand-in-hand with graffiti culture. There were crews of people that used to do it.”
Want to see this giant puppet of Lady Liberty battle a puppet Wall Street bull, take on a horde of corporate vampires and lead a 40-foot-long puppet of the Brooklyn Bridge complete with throngs of OWS protestors? Wouldn’t they make a handsome addition to NYC’s annual Village Halloween Parade? Indeed. Read more »
Midtown Manhattan is the most dangerous and likely place in the entire city for pedestrians to be hit by cars according to Transportation Alternatives’s newly overhauled Crashstat website. Between 1995 and 2009, there was 8,604 vehicular crashes with walkers. That’s almost twice as much as second place finisher, Jamaica, Queens, which totalled 4,741. See where else to avoid while strolling around NYC over here.
Jesse Jackson Occupies OWS Medical Tent, Saves it from Being Evicted by NYPD
A little after 11:25PM, there was a big commotion on the south side of Zuccotti Park as someone mic checked that the NYPD was moving into to remove the “medical tent” (tents are a violation of the park’s rules.). Occupy Wall Street protesters immediately locked arms and vowed to protect it. Out of nowhere, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson swooped in and briefly spoke face to face with the NYPD as officers continued to amass on Cedar Street. Read more »
Parting Shot
French light writer Julien Breton aka Kaalam shows off his ephemeral calligraphy in Redhook. (Photo: David Gallard/Flickr)
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