Month: August 2014
Quoth the raven, “The fuck you lookin’ at?” The New York Times reports that ravens have been sighted in Chelsea and Greenwich Village over the last few months. The common raven is native to much of North America, but there had been only a few sightings of the bird in the city until the 1960’s. (Edgar Allen Poe’s famous […]
According to city records, 35% of New York’s 8,894 public phones are broken. The Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has stated that Verizon may be in part at fault for the mass failure, as the company is largely responsible for repair of public phones and hasn’t stepped up to fix them in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Despite their state […]
Suku, Empire State Building. (Photo: @Helin Film) […]
A mural honoring Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri was painted on the side of a business in North St. Louis. The tribute was done by artist Joseph Albanese and commissioned by Signature Screenprinting according to the St. Louis Dispatch. It’s a “dedication to the Mike […]
Marcellus Buckley, 22, reads his poem, “The People vs The Police” on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson Friday evening. (Video: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A Queens resident photographed the razing of 5 Pointz from high above earlier today. (Photo: Jon R) […]
Like other major urban centers, the city of St. Louis is teeming with graffiti. Some of it’s amazing, some of it sucks. In between covering the protests in Ferguson, here’s what we came across in a desolate warehouse, at an abandoned train yard, and along a legal (flood) wall on South Wharf Street known as […]
The art world has seen plenty of blatant depictions of genitals, but never quite like this all together. The very popular Cet obscur objet de désir, autour de l’Origine du Monde exhibit going on now at the Courbet Museum in Ornans, France offers a formidable collection of established masterpieces. Guy Cogeval, the president of the d’Orsay and Orangerie museums, spoke fondly […]
The city is attempting to make good on Mayor de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate traffic deaths. According to data newly released by the NYPD, tickets for unsafe driving are up in 70 out of the city’s 75 precincts compared to last year. Some of the highest numbers come from the 109th precinct in Queens, where more […]
We’re big fans of urban exploring. Accessing places that are otherwise off-limits can be exhilarating, and fun. But this is fucking nuts. Watch as self-described “professional adventurer” James Kingston climbs atop a crane in India and then dangles off it by one freaking hand. […]
