Month: August 2013
Brooklyn gets a shout out in an unidentified New York City subway tunnel. (Photo: gothamruins/Flickr) […]
A pair of troublesome kittens that caused some major delays for two subway lines in Brooklyn were eventually caught on Thursday evening and sent to Animal Care and Control in East New York. The felines, named Arthur (left) and August (right), are “approximately 8 weeks old” and are doing just fine according to AC&C. Pretty […]
Mayoral candidate and comptroller John Liu released a report yesterday detailing the potential benefits of medical cannabis in NYC today, hot on the heels of his announcement that he’d like to see the plant legalized for recreational and medicinal use in the city. According to the report, there are 100,000 New Yorkers who could benefit […]
It’s pretty apparent that our city’s current subway system could use a few improvements. Luckily, Andrew Lynch of Vanshookenraggen has created a new and improved subway system that incorporates what’s already there with minimal additions. Behold: …realistic ideas that could use existing infrastructure better and develop lines that served the growing areas of the city while better connecting the outer boroughs. […]
If you sign one thing today, make it this, a Change.org petition to rename the block of Brooklyn’s Fulton Street between St. James and Cambridge Places after one Mr. Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious B.I.G. The Clinton Hill block is the one Biggie called home during his childhood, and LeRoy McCarthy hopes to immortalize the […]
Here’s the latest episode of Mass Appeal’s great new series “Rhythm Roulette,” which asks rap producers to pick three records while blindfolded, then make a beat that samples all three. This installment features El-P, who grabs LPs (see what I did there?) from Leon Haywood, Theo Vaness, and Beethoven. After hitting the vape and sipping some Modelo, […]
ANIMAL loves minimalist icons, but before their various uses on the internet, this iconography served purely utilitarian purposes. The MTA uses tons of minimalist icons to show daily commuters where not to go, what not to do with the doors and where the rats and pesticide are. Let’s take a minute and admire them purely for their […]
Artist Scott Pettersen’s 12 inch Blade Runner action figures are immaculate, from the faces of Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah, to the costumes, to the make-up and tattoo details, to the “essence of the characters.” I work in wax when I sculpt and you can get a lot of detail in wax. The finished heads […]
Elena Sava Adams, a 57-year-old Romanian-American woman living in Battery Park City, wanted to kill her husband. He wasn’t giving her enough money “to make ends meet,” apparently, and she wanted to collect on a little life insurance money, according to the NYPD. So she went to Brooklyn (less surveillance cameras there, she thought) and […]
Per the video‘s intro: “Filmed on August 26, 2013. Filmed in New York City. Film Speed: 4.3x. Route: Southbound on FDR, starting at 116th Street, ending at 116th Street. Car: 2006 BMW Z4 3.0si, manual/stock. Red lights: six.” He does it in 24 minutes seven seconds. Jalopnik asked the anonymous man how he’d respond to accusations […]
