Year: 2013
Quotas have been near the center of the debate about stop-and-frisk since the federal trial of the controversial NYPD practice began. If commanding officers are enforcing numerical goals for arrests, tickets, and stops (and they are), goes the plaintiffs’ line of argument, then that would incentivize officers on the street to stop a person even […]
With Citi Bike‘s launch right around the corner, there’s sure to be a slew of people on two wheels in the city for the first time this summer. If you’re one of them, take a look at the latest installment of the city’s annual map of bike lanes around the five boroughs. Paper maps will […]
What’s this? More breaking Van Gogh news? You don’t say. Serious researcher bros have been picking at Vincent’s pigments with an electron microscope and an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, deducing that the famous dead artist was using chemically unstable red paint. Then, sophisticated academic fan boys wanked off on these super hot famous dead artist news for […]
Sure, New York has a rat problem. A rat plague, if you will. There are goddamn rats everywhere. But maybe taking your terriers and dachshunds out for a rat hunt in a grimy Manhattan alley isn’t the solution? The AP reports that there are these “ratter” people who get together to play fox hunt in New […]
Sotheby’s Inc. posted a Craigslist ad for “a Skilled and dedicated Administrative Assistant” last night and failed. Indeed they do need an administrative assistant, because this one doesn’t know how to ctrl+c ctrl +v. The post contains an entire gchat conversation of Employee 1 attempting to instruct Employee 2 on how to copy and paste text into a document. […]
Ned, Times Square. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Ellis G. now provides instructions on how to view his chalk-based street art. (Photo: Hrag Vartanian) […]
News Vines is our new reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. Tim Tebow Dropped by the Jets vine.co/v/bxFWM6I5A1m — ANIMALNewYork (@ANIMALNewYork) April 29, 2013 In this edition, the New York Jets did something to Tim Tebow. (Vine: Allison Bagg) […]
Wildcat, the latest from filmmaker Khalil Joseph, is a meditation on a town in Oklahoma and the “little-known African-American rodeo subculture” that exists there. Joseph’s black-and-white imagery is astounding, from the adolescent boy wearing shutter shades perched atop a horse to the girl in a bridal gown standing on deserted bleaches, and the film doesn’t require […]
Tomorrow night, we’re throwing a party! With DJs! And video art projections! And a burlesque performance! And dancing! You should come. G1RLZ NI†E has amassed a great line-up of visual artists. We were going for selfie and net-based projections as a pop-up art experiment co-opting a club aesthetic… and we ended up curating a show. Oops. ･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ#GIRLZNITE FEATURED ARTISTS […]
