The 190th Street Subway Station gets topically renamed. (Photo: Waldo826)

After a few fatalities and scores of injuries, New York City’s Department of Traffic has green-lighted a bunch of traffic improvements (PDF doc) designed to make crossing Delancey less like a game of Frogger (image left) and more like a safe stroll across the street (image right). Work begins in June, giving the local tabloids plenty of time to denounce the mini-pedestrian plazas, complete with fancy potted plants, that will be constructed to shorten the crosswalks.

Here’s what the beginning of the weeks-long clean-up after the Giants’ hooting, mob-scene parade/paper blizzard looked like on Broadway. (Photos: Dan Nguyen/Flickr)

Mystery guy in a Superman suit returned to Union Square on Monday to scream about freedom for an hour until the NYPD arrived to dislodge him from George Washington’s bronze steed. (Photo: DNA Info)

The “Soldier” series by Suzanne Opton was previously featured and gigantic billboards in nine US cities and set off enough people to spark a debate about the image of America’s military. Read more »

Photographer Brock Davis has reenacted the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the Hindenberg airship mishap of 1937 and the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster with heads of cauliflower and dramatic lighting. Also toothpicks, wire, skewers, pins and an entirely inappropriate attitude towards tragedy, that sick bastard. Mmm. Crunchilicious. Ah, don’t fret. It’s tasteless, I know, but don’t think of this food play as belittling of human disaster, instead, imagine the veg nobs as microcosms of the very explosions they’re imitating. Nature is all fractals anyway. Whoah, man. Whoah. Read more »

This morning, the Coen Brothers time-warped Woodside, Queens back to the 1960′s and the East Village is next. (Photo: Rocco S. Cetera/Flickr)

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn’t care to fit in… in a Parking Lot near Little Italy. (Photo: Joseph Holmes/Flickr)

When Tokyo-born photographer Motoyuki Daifu met this girl, she was twenty, with a two-year-old kid and pregnant with another. “I fell in love with her at first sight” … for six months. “I had never met a girl like her — a girl full of motherly love.” See the photographic record of their brief but deep affair at Lombard Freid Projects and you’ll feel like a voyeur. NSFW. Read more »

Aside from rushing into a burning building or apprehending a dangerous criminal, the hardest thing to do is stand-up in front of complete strangers and make them laugh. Sure, everyone has a funny guy in the office or knows the girl with the funny Facebook posts, but it takes a rare breed of funny to win over a crowd of unknowns. This week, Warren Holstein, a New York comic, graciously let me tag along to a few clubs throughout the city (a midtown club then uptown for The Comic Strip and Stand Up NY) and introduce me to this world. Read more »