Month: February 2014
Last April, two Keystone Cops NYPD officers were driving the wrong way down Watkins Street in Brownsville when they sideswiped a parked SUV belonging to a man named Robert Jackson’s girlfriend. Jackson was inside, and stepped out to ask the officers how’d they manage to run into him. Then, according to Jackson, the cop said […]
After an announcement this week that it will begin kicking out homeless people who take shelter on subway trains, the MTA would like to clarify that no, it is not a heartless monster. NYPD officers and transit workers won’t force homeless people above ground, MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said Friday, but offer them alternatives, like a bed in […]
Chuck, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Besides being able to practically bend time when traveling from the West Side of Manhattan to Brooklyn, the L train also allows riders to see fragments of REVS’ legendary tunnel pages. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s a cool emulation of a Commodore 64 synth that lives in your browser, as spotted by Evolver.fm. If you want those sweet, old-school sounds, but can’t be bothered to pony up for vintage hardware, you could do a lot worse than this. As Evolver points out, the thing is especially fun on an iPhone […]
FLOTUS graced Manhattan’s New Museum with her presence earlier today, promoting her “Drink Up” campaign with WAT-AHH. Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Kenny Scharf, and others created paintings and murals for this initiative telling kids to drink more water and designed some water bottle labels. Numerous press outlets reported that this was a “street-art inspired exhibit,” but it’s a pop-up event for […]
What with the recent arrest of Shawn Thomas, a photographer who was arrested and allegedly beaten for the non-crime of recording video of a police officer, it’s an opportune time for Photo District News to be releasing their photographer’s guide to the First Amendment. In the video above, National Press Photographers Association general counsel Mickey Osterreicher explains the […]
Finding a bathroom while out and about in the city can be a figurative (and sometimes literal) pain in the ass. Still, you probably don’t need POSH, a company that aims to put members-only bathrooms around Manhattan. The first one comes to midtown June 2014. What does POSH bathroom service entail? For a $15-per-year flat […]
Partially anonymous artist collective The Bruce High Quality Foundation is having it’s last ever Brucennial, appropriately entitled “The Grand Finale,” from March 7 through April 4. BHQF’s packed biennial event has previously received enamored reviews like these: You might view the jampacked, multifloor installation of works by close to 400 artists as a populist, radically inclusive survey of what artists in […]
At a demonstration this morning, Kaplan teachers protested for a contract that would afford them better wages and benefits from the for-profit English school. They planned to march from an inflatable pig in front of a Kaplan office at 623 Broadway down to another pig near the Soho office of Scholastic, which is also embroiled […]
