Because New York is broke and yellow cabs are notorious for refusing to drive people to places like Brooklyn, Governor Andrew Cuomo worked out a deal with Mayor Bloomberg to allow livery cabs to pick up street hails in Upper Manhattan and the outer boroughs, just like they have been doing for years, except now it’s legal. Read more »
NYC’s subway system harbors lots of musical talent, but this cover of “Silent Night” in the First Avenue L station is stirring, so be sure to turn up your volume. Move over Susan Boyle, a new star is born. Read more »
Here’s a remixed clip of Putin’s notorious television appearance, aptly edited down to the uhs, ums and eghs, gesticulations and audience reactions. It’s hypnotizing. It’s hilarious but also very upsetting… Read more »
Fuse TV’s got a brand newish, street-based reality competition show “with some New York attitude,” you guys — hassling random strangers on NYC sidewalks for pop culture trivia. If this “Billy on the Street” gent didn’t have so much damn personality, I’d bah-humbug this thing so hard. Read more »
Street artist Gaia spent a day down in the half-buffed Freedom Tunnel to pay tribute to “magnanimous infrastructural tyrant” Robert Moses. (Image: Dan Soloman/Flickr)
Keeping up with the Occupy Wall Street protest movement is a daunting task for news outlets big and small, so from here on in, we’ll be doing a daily roundup of the latest goings-on. (Photo: mediafury/flickr) Read more »
Watch as this energetic man performs Jay-Z and Kanye West’s hit track, “Niggas in Paris” aboard a NYC subway train. Compare it to the original here. It’s hard to tell the difference, right?
Now that the American version of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is finally out, cinematic geeks and Lisbeth Salander fanatics of the Western world galore are rejoicing with everything from stark H&M clothing collections to satiric Funny or Die parodies. Read more »
The Christians got it all wrong. The Beast of the Apocalypse is not a horned creature from center Earth or a leopard with seven heads. It’s the interactive Forever 21 billboard in the heart of Times Square with mindless tourists, possibly the 50 millionth, waving at it. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
We’ve been waiting for successful, rights-conscious artist Amish Kapoor to unveil his 1400-ton ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower, UK’s largest public artwork and there it is in London, looking like an “oil rig twisting on itself” or a broken roller coaster. The real thing (right) is just a bit less impressive than its digital rendering (left). Womp womp? Just like the giant worm he packed inside the Grand Palais in Paris, such giant things require swarms of comparably tiny, tiny people to highlight its size and gusto. Peek-squeak “wows!” optional.
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