Take a whiff of OAK’s new Westside Christopher + West ’76 candle. Mmm… sweat, leather and flowers? That does smell like naughty disco. “The Lights of New York” series serves up each classic bodega candle shaped doozy saturated with the particular scent of an NYC intersection in time. They’re so immaculate, it’s disgusting. Read more »
As Curb Your Enthusiasm’s long-awaited New York season is getting better and, at the same time, approaching its end, another episode brings us a series of magical car rides wherein Larry David drives uptown and downtown simultaneously. Read more »
Here’s some more devastation the mighty hurricane has wrought: backed-up storm drain water pooling in large puddles in Times Square that a bunch of bros just could not resist frolicking in, whilst they giggle and hoot. Watch them dive chest first into the neon-streaked street water… Read more »
Here’s some statistical perspective for all those nauseating subway rat encounter videos: 100 New Yorkers get bit by rats a year on average, but only 29 bites were reported so far this year, according to NYC’s Health Department. Are we getting less delicious? Read more »
A neon peace sign glows in the top window of the Upper West Side’s hundred-year-old Ansonia building for the past few months. Uptight residents are complaining to have it removed. They really hate it. One said it was “beautiful” but on the down low, fearful of the building board’s wrath. While they’re whining about this awesome ornament ruining their exterior, here’s an NSFW reminder of the shenanigans that once went down in their basement… Read more »
NYC has beat out San Francisco for top rank on WalkScore.com which grades places on their walking distance to amenities and “pedestrian-friendliness.” More than half of our 259 neighborhoods scored above 80, but which one was the least walkable? Rikers Island: 5. Yup. They ranked Rikers Island. Read more »
Begging for change on Houston Street nude, browsing books at the NYU Library nude, buying a street hot dog nude – photographer Erica Simone created this series of self-portraits exposing herself all over New York City doing typical New York City things. Twenty photographs from Nue York are presented at Damon Dash’s gallery as evidence. See some below (NSFW) and… UPDATE: Erica Simone herself tells ANIMAL how she didn’t get arrested doing this. Read more »
This is Sleepycity‘s new excursion since going home to NYC after all the jet-lagged squatting and climbing around the world’s urban holes and peaks with a camera: 1916′s Hell Gate Bridge. It a will last a thousand years. The trains are infrequent and “it’s quiet enough to hear them coming,” so the troop roamed freely. More photos here.
Brooklynite Cacy Forgenie has photographed sites of burning taxis, crash-piled police cruisers, smoking rumble and dazed bleeders on the losing side of a domestic scuffle (The Girl Won). Opening on September 11, his exhibit “Jaded” will inject shots of New Yorkers’ at their most traumatic moments into a Christopher Street bar. Preview the work below. Read more »
The Library of Congress recently uploaded 43 videos from the early 1900′s. Check out a grainy New York City blast from the past below. Pretty nifty. Read more »
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