Month: December 2014
According to a recent Quinnipiac University Poll, New Yorkers are a funny bunch. While 67% of New York City voters agree that the grand jury fucked up the Eric Garner case, 57% of those same voters aren’t cool with demonstrators protesting that bad decision in the streets. Only 34% think blocking traffic is okay. Some […]
The New York City Council passed a bill on Wednesday banning the sale of bunny rabbits. Pet rabbits have become an issue at city shelters, where owners bring them after experiencing buyer’s remorse. According to Reuters: Animal Care & Control of NYC, a shelter contracted by the city, said it took in 376 rabbits between January […]
NYPD precincts across the city are canceling their holiday parties amid the ongoing protests for Eric Garner, reports DNAinfo. The decision is one of practicality: officers pay for holiday parties themselves, and many are worried that they’ll have to skip the parties to work, patrolling the streets during a demonstration. So far, two thirds of […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Robert Yang about Intimate, Infinite, a three-pronged exploration of the infinite and the inevitable. Robert Yang has been a fan of Argentine short story writer […]
The MTA is exploring the possibility of putting in an entrance at Avenue A for the L train as part of a proposed $300 million dollar plan to improve the overcrowded subway line. According to a press release from the MTA, the L train “runs from Manhattan to the Canarsie section of Brooklyn through neighborhoods […]
On Wednesday, a jury found former Rikers captain Terrence Pendergrass guilty of a civil rights violation in the death of an inmate two years ago. The New York Times reports that Pendergrass is the first officer to be tried for such a crime “in more than a decade.” He may serve up to 10 years […]
Gottfried, Bed Stuy. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
TOP DOGS, Canal Street. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Like two stubborn family members, Cuba and the U.S. got into a really bad argument decades ago that almost led to nuclear holocaust and they haven’t been friends ever since. And then today, the White House dropped a bombshell: Commissar Obama said he will seek to normalize relations between the two countries that severed diplomatic […]
On December 8, as protests for Eric Garner waged on in New York and elsewhere in the nation, a group of Ferguson activists came to New York and educated the media about racism. Rolling Stone followed Millennial Activists United co-creator Ashley Yates; rapper T-Dubb-O; and Tory Russell, who co-founded Hands Up United with and hip-hop […]
