Year: 2014
Mayor Bill de Blasio met with five police union heads on Tuesday afternoon in an effort to improve increasingly hostile relations between the two groups. While no press was allowed inside the conference room of the Police Academy in College Point, Queens, sources told the New York Daily News that the two and a half […]
Recurring rapper Skillz is back and presents his annual “Rap Up,” a rehashing of this past year’s most notable moments. And he does not disappoint. Listen to the Virginia native do a lyrical rundown of what happened in hip hop, politics, sports and everything else in-between as 2014 comes to an end. Compare the “2014 […]
After a nine year run, the alarms on emergency exits in subway stations have seen their last days. A spokesman for the MTA has announced that aside from “a few lingering offenders,” the transit organization has disabled the alarms that mostly served the purpose of deafening straphangers. The alarms were initially installed to prevent fare […]
Solomon, Noho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It’s hard to believe there was once a sprawling facility here with spray-painted art all over it called 5 Pointz. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
According to Al Jazeera, there’s a reason why New York City has become the “focal point for recurrent demonstrations over the last couple of weeks” that extends beyond the sheer amount of people (whether they be Occupy holdouts or National Action Network members) and injustices committed by the nation’s largest police force. Writer Jathan Sadowski […]
Who needs tarot cards when you can shake a barrel of monkeys while charging your destiny, listen to some sick drum & bass and read your future through an intricate system of glitched out apes? Monkey Fortune Tell is a mini-game that was cooked up by Alien Melon during a game development jam session and it makes your […]
The FDA just released a letter detailing the conditions of an East Williamsburg Chinese food distributor and among the many insane findings there was a “rodent’s nest with multiple rodents in a plastic-lined box in a cooler that had thawing rib meat on top of melons.” Seriously. Daily Finance outlines the other prominent violations that were cited […]
A virtual private network, or VPN, is a method used by people all around the world to have a more secure and private connection on the internet. Businesses use them for internal communications and storage; journalists and dissidents use them to get around blocked sites in restrictive countries; and many people use them just to visit websites […]
Lazy citydwellers, meet Chasing Sunlight, a mobile flower pot. With this invention, you’ll be able to care for houseplants without worrying about having a green thumb, let alone any thumbs, because your flower pot will move itself to sunlight. Creators Xiaolong Mu and Shu Zhang, graduate students in NYU’s ITP program, created a motorized pot […]
