Tag: Brooklyn
Wednesday afternoon marks the final 24 hours of a now-viral Kickstarter campaign to erect a museum for figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in a Brooklyn apartment hallway. With the modest goal of $75 having been met and far surpassed, the museum is already underway. The museum’s proprietors are Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen, […]
For the past three years, Jennifer Maravillas has been strategically wandering through the streets of Brooklyn, picking up garbage — for art. Her project, titled “71 Square Miles,” consists of a 10×10 foot map of the borough wherein each block is represented by trash she found on it. And to her delight, it’s finally done. […]
In 1967, the Yippies tried to levitate the Pentagon as an act of protest against the Vietnam War. The levitation itself was unsuccessful, but it did result in Norman Mailer’s classic book The Armies of the Night. On Tuesday, inspired by the Yippies, musical collective Talibam! attempted to levitate Vice Media’s office off its foundation […]
Bill de Blasio’s intrepid plan to fully eradicate traffic-related fatalities by 2024 is well underway. Despite being met by public scrutiny, the initiative called “Vision Zero” received some major funding from the federal government late last year and now we’re seeing more details unfold. The broad plans for Queens were revealed Wednesday by the Department […]
A subway busker who apparently values his life at less than $5 risked death to fetch a bill that landed on the subway tracks in Brooklyn. A video posted to Reddit shows a very terrible human being tossing a five-dollar bill that had no shot at landing across the platform. The busker, without hesitating, flings […]
Less than a day after it was reported that a street artist replaced a “White Castle” sign with “White Hassle,” the clever work has been taken down. Brooklyn-based interventionist Gabe Specter changed the letters on the vacant building’s front with his own poignant ones, Gothamist reported. View this post on Instagram A post shared by […]
Less than a month after the bill was submitted, city officials have voted to rename two Brooklyn streets after slain NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. The New York Post reports that the vote was a unanimous decision reached by the The City Council Parks Committee. Liu and Ramos were shot and killed on […]
Prosecutors have dropped the case against Brooklyn fashion photographer Andre Perry, who on November 17 was arrested for wearing what police thought were brass knuckles. The ring was a gold 2-finger Dallas & Dynasty ring that Perry says he bought at a flea market. DNAinfo reports that Perry, 32, “was charged with two counts of […]
Six cops from Brooklyn’s 67th precinct are under investigation on suspicion of planting guns on men and fabricating informants. A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge has dismissed all charges against 53-year-old Jeffrey Herring, one of several men arrested under similarly suspicious circumstances by the group of officers, after they failed to produce a confidential informant in […]
Taylor Swift may be New York’s tourism ambassador, but it is homegrown New Yorker and actress Rosie Perez who represents the city in a new video urging the Democratic National Committee to host its 2016 convention in Brooklyn. Perez, who has been involved with the de Blasio campaign for over a year, is just one […]
