Year: 2014
“Decentralize Everything,” Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Days after a banner reading “DE BLASIO OUR BACKS HAVE TURNED TO YOU,” ran across NYC, a second banner criticizing the mayor appeared on Wednesday afternoon. The banner read, “DE BLASIO, APOLOGIZE TO THE NYPD!!” The banner was paid for by Michael Sheehan, reports the New York Daily News, a “retired Westchester County Correction officer […]
Around 10 AM, Ferguson Protestors gathered in St. Louis near an old downtown courthouse before marching to police headquarters and occupying the lobby. The demonstrators had come to remind the police department that nothing had changed since the shooting death of Mike Brown and to serve them a list of demands in the form of […]
As we draw the year to a close here at ANIMAL, we’ve put together a list of our best original features of the year. Maybe you missed that ridiculous video of a cyclist speeding into traffic; maybe you haven’t been turned on to the gender-bending insanity of Uterus Man; or maybe you didn’t catch our […]
City officials announced on Wednesday that they are moving to honor slain Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos by naming two Brooklyn streets after them. Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced their support for a bill sponsored by Council Members Mark Treyger and Rafael Espina, who represent the slain detectives’s […]
The crew currently aboard the International Space Station will probably be having a weirder New Year’s Eve than you, even if you decide to take that experimental chemical recommended by the Backdoor Pharmacist that you just haven’t had the balls to try for months. That’s because this year the astronauts will be navigating what they call “The […]
Black Mirror’s technology is could soon be real, and virtual reality is coming to the internet, so perhaps it’s fitting that the most popular word of the year was not a word at all, but the heart emoji. Obviously there are plenty of “most popular word lists” of 2014, so take this with a grain […]
Fashion photographer Andre Perry, 32, has shot campaigns for Reebok, Brooklyn Circus and Nordstrom, but fashion caused him some problems recently when his two-finger gold ring was mistaken for brass knuckles by undercover members of the NYPD. They arrested Perry and charged him with “two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, one for having the ring […]
You may soon discern another sound among the honking, yelling, and construction sites along the streets of New York City: warning messages from MTA buses. According to the the New York Daily News, the MTA is developing a pilot program in which it will alert pedestrians to stay clear at turns by blaring warnings from […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. This week’s playlist comes to you from experimental electronic beatmeister Duane Starpilot. Mister […]
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