Year: 2013
NYCLU released its analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 stop-and-frisk statistics Wednesday. Briefly, here’s how the numbers look: -The department stopped people 532,911 times in 2012. -Ninety percent of people stopped were innocent, ie. not arrested or ticketed. -Eighty-seven percent of people stopped were black or Latino. -Ten percent of people were white. -In the ten precincts […]
Perhaps inspired by the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn’s recent forays into so-called “hipsterdom,” a Jewish group has launched a campaign called “Unite the Beards,” aiming to bring Williamsburg’s hairy masses closer to Hasidic Judaism. In the video above, with the tagline “Hasid and hipster, not as different as you think,” four white guys in various […]
Travis, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Check out the little dude going for a solo “drive” on Delancey at 3am this morning. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Helen Pynor is not a shock artist. Yes, she managed to get a fresh human brain for the “Brains: The mind as matter” installation at the Wellcome Collection in London last year, but her projects aren’t sensationalistic. They’re just unusually corporal. The Body is a Big Place is Pynor’s large-scale, immersive installation. The underwater sequences were shot with members of the Melbourne organ […]
Vast, lonely, and completely unwelcoming to human life, Antarctica feels like a foreign planet. Yet, its menacing natural beauty are what make it so alluring. It’s quite the conundrum. Luckily, we’ve got the stunning photos of Hamburg’s Lars Focke to give us a glimpse into the Antarctic void — minus the risk of freezing to death or […]
Some of you might be asking, B-Phizzle, how the hell did you graduate university when you’re so busy putting bath salts down your tear ducts or blacking out for days at a time on homemade 1000 proof liquor? No one wants to hear “study and hard work.” This is New York. We don’t have time […]
Stray cats on campus of the Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill are a charming aspect of campus life, almost as old as the institution itself. Recently, there have been rumors of mass cat “eviction.” That rumor was enough for over 1,300 Pratt students to sign Yanni Trittas’ petition opposing the removal the cats, just in the past 48 hours. Jolene Travis, a spokesmen for the school says: […]
New York-based artist Leslie Thornton‘s new video installation Luna is more than just an immersive, three-channeled, kaleidoscopic spectacle. It’s a new form of digital storytelling, spanning the history of Coney Island from 1900 to some time in the not-too-distant future. In lieu of actors and dialogue, Luna stars the iconic Parachute Jump, whose gradual metamorphosis is witnessed through […]
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. The Nomad 1170 Broadway, Flatiron, Manhattan Fette Sau 354 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Sensation Neo Shanghai Cuisine 208 Grand St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Louro 142 W […]
