Month: December 2014
The always interesting data-blog I Quant New York (IQNY) has created a great infographic of the oldest liquor licenses in NYC based on the available data. While this doesn’t necessarily mean a list of the oldest bars in the city, it’s actually more enlightening, since it reveals some places that aren’t usually known for being historical […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. This week’s playlist comes to you from Brooklyn’s own Pony Farm who specialize […]
According to the New York Post, a divisive, sensationalist tabloid that stokes fear and often gets stories wrong, “gang members” threatened to “shoot it out with police” in New York City. The NYPD deployed “SWAT teams” at two precincts in Bed Stuy: Four Emergency Services Unit officers, outfitted with helmets and assault weapons, were stationed […]
Florida, the nation’s largest old people relocation center and a place that sucks, just became the third most populous state in the United States, knocking New York into fourth place. According to the latest census figures, the Sunshine State is putting numbers on the board. The New York Times reports: The numbers, which reflect population […]
Nicholas, Jamaica Station. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Demonstrators ignored Mayor de Blasio’s request to halt protests until after the funerals for two slain police officers have concluded, and marched in Manhattan on Tuesday evening. “Hey-hey, ho-ho, these racist cops have got to go,” chanted protesters as they strutted along Fifth Avenue’s luxury shopping district and generated a new hashtag on social media: […]
Have a Very MOODY Christmas, Woodward Gallery, LES (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Despite the fact that recreational and medical weed use is legal in Colorado, it is not currently legal to have a concealed weapon license in the state if you are a pot user. Now, an activist group is trying to change that. The “Colorado Campaign for Equal Gun Rights” is attempting to get a measure on […]
Andrew Hill of data-visualisation firm Vizzuality has put together this insane interactive map for you to peruse the United States complex system of rivers and he’s color-coded it out in that distinct black light poster style. The colors are based on the direction each river flows. New Scientist explains: “There are 18 distinct colours around the compass,” […]
Murals honoring fallen police officers and victims of police violence were recently painted by graffiti and street artists in Manhattan and Bushwick. The tributes — commissioned by the L.I.S.A (Little Italy Street Art) Project — were done by Cassius Fouler and Bishop 203. “We wanted to do something that would make people take a moment […]
