Month: August 2014
The city is doubling up efforts to control increasingly severe rat infestations A new “rat reservoir pilot” program will attempt to make neighborhoods rat-proof by sealing up all its tiny holes and hiring extra exterminators. The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s “rat expert” Caroline Bragdon told NPR how she sees the streets: “If you look really carefully, you […]
Once in a while, a gem pops up on NYC Reddit that makes years we’ve spent living in windowless basement shitholes and shanty dorms seem a little better, for this is an amazingly bad and pompously pitched set-up right here. Let Joseph Morgan give you a tour of this “Luxury Midtown East” apartment and it’s twelve bunk beds […]
Yesterday, police commissioner Bill Bratton announced a small pilot program that will provide NYPD officers with body cameras to record their actions while on duty. The initial program will include only 50 officers. The cameras are intended both to prevent misconduct by officers and allow officers a defense against complaints that are said to be unfounded. […]
Salvador, Murray Hill. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Street artist Lmnopi‘s Ferguson tribute in Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The NYPD has launched an investigation to find the person who spray painted powerful sentiments onto the 94th Precinct in Greenpoint, a police cruiser outside the building and PS 31. The Daily News reports: “NYPD = NAZI,” one hate message read. “NYPD Picks on Harmless People,” said another. The suspect also wrote “NYPD” next to a swastika. […]
About three weeks after Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Protective Edge and invaded Palestine, Brooklyn-based street art duo Icy and Sot painted a pro-Gaza mural on a wall provided by the Bushwick Collective. Entitled “Rocket vs Rock,” the image shows a giant-like Palestinian freedom fighter — not outfitted in Hamas colors — emerging out of […]
With people abusing opioid-based drugs cross the country, a new study published by the Jama Internal Medicine suggests a safer alternative. In surveying death certificate data from every state between 1999 and 2010, research shows that states where weed can be legally prescribed to treat chronic pain have a 24.8% lower opioid overdose mortality rate. Three states (California, Oregon, and Washington) […]
New York City will install 214 new surveillance cameras and 165 light towers at the Lincoln Houses public housing development in East Harlem, according to a new announcement by Mayor de Blasio. The city will also take down old scaffolding and and sheds at NYCHA facilities. “We have to keep making these developments better and […]
Princeton University psychologist Uri Hasson has presented some somewhat curious empirical studies at an event recently hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His research concludes that certain films stimulate the same parts of the audience members’ brains, “synchronizing” their neural activity. Clips from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as well as a scary scene from Darren Aronofsky’s Black […]
