Month: September 2014
For a while, YouTube was the best place to see wily rats interacting with the public. At one point, there was new footage emerging weekly, some of it more horrific than the next. But rest easy city dwellers, the rats of New York are finally getting the proper film treatment they deserve. According to Variety […]
The 66-year-old police commissioner of New York City Bill Bratton testified in front of city council on Monday morning and he did little to assuage the perception that anything within his department is in need of major reform. The session at City Hall was called to address changes needed within Bratton’s department and was in direct response to […]
Stephen Hawking has joined the chorus of physicists that believe the so-called “God Particle” has the potential to destroy the universe. Higgs boson is an elementary particle which gives everything in the universe mass. It’s crucial to the existence of everything. “The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies […]
Opponents of cannabis legalization are turning to academics with impressive resumes and titles to push the line that cannabis — the drug with not a single known case of deadly overdose — is unsafe and dangerous. Vice has dug into the open secret of conflict of interest and financial disclosures and found that many of […]
While the NYPD continues to trumpet its use of “broken windows” policing, actual damaged or missing windows in public housing buildings has increased by 945% between 2005 and 2011, according to a new report from the NYC comptroller’s office. In 2011, the last year for which data was available, New York City Housing Authority buildings were three times as likely to have broken windows, compared to […]
Remember Proust, the iPhone app that rewards your judginess? Now, there’s an embeddable polls version for desktops. We’re going to use it to occasionally gather our readers’ collective opinions about some very important questions. […]
Pop star Miley Cyrus has an Instagram account that 12,520,528 people follow. She posts pics of her baby pig, her baby pig sitting on her crotch and her NYFW pink glitter that was totally not a weird rash, #RAVE. Also, peeing in a forest. Also, her art! V Magazine was quick to catch on Miley’s artistic potential, in particular, her assemblages — Miley has been lovingly “obbling together […]
Santiago Hernandez says he was beaten by police in the Bronx, after being arrested during a search. A surveillance video shows the 23-year-old man speaking with two female police officers, who later put him in handcuffs. Afterwards, a half dozen more officers appear to pile on him and beat him while he lies cuffed on the […]
Finley, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Comedian and actorish-person Seth Rogen apparently had some issues earlier today with his Citi Bike rental, so he responded like most sensible people would. He sent a public message to them and his over 2.2. million followers on Twitter. Fuck you @CitibikeNYC — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) September 7, 2014 Five minutes later, the person handling […]
