Month: January 2015
Get Up NY is an anonymous collective that wheatpastes printouts of Instagram posts around the city, then it takes pics of its handiwork and posts it up on Instagram. That would be kind of cool on its own, but the real beauty of the project is the collective’s choice of where to put up the prints: […]
In 2003 Damien Hirst’s ego received an entirely unnecessary boost when he was chosen to be the first artist to have his work sent to Mars. That year, a spot painting by Hirst was placed on the Beagle 2 Mars probe, which was ejected from its mother ship on December 19th and never heard from […]
Pratt Institute visiting assistant professor Ben Wellington, who runs the influential quantitative analysis blog I Quant NY, has published a TEDxNewYork talk in which he talks about the untapped wonders of New York City’s open data. With the fervor of a preacher, Wellington calls upon New Yorkers to rise up and demand legislation that will […]
For the past three months, an art exhibition in Switzerland has been displaying random items that were bought on the Darknet by an automated bot; most controversially, one of the items was a bag of ecstasy. According to the artist’s collective behind the piece, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, the artwork was seized by authorities under confusing circumstances on […]
For some residents of Long Island City, the influx of shiny new towers makes the area look more like Miami than NYC. The Queens neighborhood has been a manufacturing hub and a blue-collar world for decades, but recent development has brought in condos and what the owner of Court Square Diner calls “yuppies.” Now city […]
Five days after Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced that the NYPD slowdown has ended, the city’s courthouses have indeed seen a “striking increase” in activity, reports the New York Daily News. The paper reports: “Low-level offenses are coming back through the system,” said Catherine Griffin, arraignments supervisor for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn. “Two […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 34°F LOW 18°F In Theaters: That dude from Thor stars in cyber-thriller Blackhat and Kevin Hart stars in silly comedy The Wedding Ringer. Guiseppe Andrews movies at Spectacle (7:30pm […]
In a struggle between living and how we live, the de Blasio administration’s affordable housing plan has come into conflict with some community gardeners who could be displaced by new developments. According to DNAinfo: The Department of Housing Preservation and Development published a list this week of city-owned sites that housing developers can apply to […]
Six cops from Brooklyn’s 67th precinct are under investigation on suspicion of planting guns on men and fabricating informants. A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge has dismissed all charges against 53-year-old Jeffrey Herring, one of several men arrested under similarly suspicious circumstances by the group of officers, after they failed to produce a confidential informant in […]
Aidan, Central Park. (Photo: Andrew Holmes) […]
