Month: December 2014
A cab driver was suspended by a judge and fined a $1000 for bad behavior after taking a passenger from the Upper West Side to Grand Street on ride fueled by a “fit of rage.” Passenger Joseph Raccuia, 56, says the cabbie, Wael Gamal-Eldin, didn’t want to go downtown because he was at the end of […]
Parker, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
For those of you who haven’t paid Sony six bucks to watch The Interview yet, good news from hacker collective Anonymous and the recently raided piracy site The Pirate Bay: They’re giving the internet a Christmas gift and have made the movie available for free. Download it here. […]
With 113,000 Instagram followers, @Santa’s Instagram account is teeming with activity tonight. The last post, which simply reads “Merry Christmas,” was published about fives hours ago and has over 1,500 comments as of 10:00PM. Some of those commenters are spreading the holiday cheer, while others are crushing children’s dreams with each refresh. “Merry Christmas Santa!” […]
Street artists ME and Clint Mario continue their epic ad takeovers and spread some yuletide cheer in Manhattan. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Every year I see writeups of the most extravagant or extreme Christmas displays that often includes a story about some asshole’s electricity bill that costs thousands of dollars, but I can never relate. Unlike the suburbs, most city dwellers don’t have adequate window area or exterior space to hang decorative lights. Renters have to do […]
Under New York City’s Vision Zero law, there are criminal consequences for killing someone, even if it’s an accident, and this has some MTA bus drivers very unhappy after a colleague was arrested on Tuesday evening. Reginald Prescott, 57, was charged with failure to failure to yield — a misdemeanor since the new statute took […]
Leave it to the Japanese to show us how a beatboxing battle should really go down. This video by Seiichiro Shimizu pits contestants against one another with animated avatars illustrating the contest in a street fighter style scenario complete with power-ups, special moves and victory dances. The two work together in a symbiotic relationship with sound dictating action and providing […]
As tensions between citizens, protestors and the NYPD continue, a new report says that even cops fall victim to a system that many say intentionally targets minorities. Many blacks cops have stated that they were racially profiled by other cops when out of uniform. Reuters reports: Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the […]
Australian artist Tully Arnot has constructed a simple little mechanized sculpture that spends its solitary days constantly liking every person that comes up in its Tinder feed. Titled Lonely Sculpture, the piece uses a rubber finger attached to a small motor that creates a funny little pun on the digit and the digit-al. It’s all been perfectly […]
