Month: November 2014
Macy’s was a madhouse last night. With food still hot on the table and some families just digging into their Thanksgiving desserts, for the first time ever, the mega-retailer opened its doors at 6PM and the crowds obliged. Its army of workers had to arrive much earlier than that to prepare for the rush, and […]
Two parents, one of whom unironically describes himself as an “thinker, disruptor, innovator, dad,” have launched a rather soulless Indiegogo campaign to cater to the whims of their 6-year-old daughter, seeking to “Get greedy Elmo & others OUT of Times Square!” The idea came from little Kamila, who got sad that Minnie Mouse or Elmo […]
The teaser for the first Star Wars film since 2005 is now online and you can watch it above! It TOTALLY SUCKS! Just kidding it actually looks really cool. Lots of practical special effects and no Jar Jar Binks. If you’re the type of person who has to see it in theaters instead of on your […]
The Department of Records and Information Services has published early documents from ol’ New Amsterdam on its website. It’s the first move in the department’s push to publish the municipal archives from NYC’s history on the internet. According to DNAinfo: Several ordinances were written by Peter Stuyvesant who was appointed Director-General of the New Netherland colonial province, […]
Residents in New York’s Hudson Valley are at odds with the state government over the possibility of widening the existing power corridor that already rips through the bucolic landscape. New York’s Public Service Commission two years ago “worried about bottlenecks in the delivery of electricity from upstate generators to New York City and other downstate […]
Shaw, East New York. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Danielle Mastrion painted a Mike Brown mural in Bushwick days after a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson triggered protests across the nation. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Minecraft is one of the most popular video games in the world — it’s available on most platforms and Microsoft seems to believe it has enough longevity to be worth $2.5 billion dollars. It’s fair to say that it is quite a bit more popular that stodgy old paintings from the early 20th century, so it […]
Video of NYPD officers NOT being violent was posted online Tuesday evening. ABC News obtained footage that shows two cops rescuing a dog in the Bronx that had been tied to a sign and abandoned. The pit bull had a muzzle around its nose tied very tightly, making it hard for the canine to breathe. […]
While it may feel like social media has taken over your life, a new web series shows you just how much worse it could be. Indiewire reports that Gilbert Gottfried and Tom Sizemore star in Life In Your Social Network, a series that illustrates what life would be like if every interaction IRL was like […]
