Month: January 2015
Federal authorities have apprehended a banker they believe to have been working as a Russian spy in New York City. The FBI says that he is connected to a Russian spy ring with at least two others. Just in: FBI arrests Russian spy in the Bronx who was part of ring attempting to collect economic […]
Protesters invaded the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court on the fifth anniversary of the controversial “Citizens United” ruling. Now, extremely rare video footage has emerged from the incident in which seven protesters were arrested (embedded above). Video footage is prohibited inside the Supreme Court’s hearings and on January 21st, demonstrators who oppose “Citizens United” were […]
Brooklyn-based indie zine publisher the Flop Box just opened an exhibit to celebrate ABC #3, its latest publication featuring handstyles from bonafide graffiti writers, from A to Z. Each artist was assigned a letter based on their name and the projects features the likes of ASKEW, BAER, CURVE, DMOTE, ENRON, FAUST, GOREY, HINDUE, ISTO, JASE, […]
If you thought you could weather this horrendous storm by sitting in your underwear and ordering Seamless every few hours, you were wrong. Effective 11 PM tonight, Mayor Bill de Blasio has banned all “non-emergency vehicles” from New York City’s roadways. This, you may be surprised to learn, includes food delivery bikes. The mayor appeared […]
Who knows why artists in Switzerland keep including drugs in their gallery shows, but hot on the heels of the ecstasy ordering robot, a new exhibition features the city of Zurich painted using a cocaine mixture. What better way to render the snowy likeness of the city than to use a little snow white? The […]
Navigating the ever-expanding sprawl of New York, a city that’s home to 8.4 million people, can be nightmarish to tourists and natives alike. Ben Wellington, a professor at Pratt, has found a way to make some sense of the chaos that surrounds us by using open data. By mining the city’s data in his blog […]
A large swath of the eastern seaboard is expected to get pounded by snow for the next two days, including the only place that matters, New York City. Although weather like this typically happens almost every winter and tends to be way worse in other parts of the country, it becomes exponentially more of a […]
A police department in North Miami Beach made headlines last week when it was discovered they were using mugshots of black men for target practice. Now, some unlikely meme-creators are trying to break the internet with a Twitter protest campaign. The #UseMeInstead campaign was started on a Facebook group for Lutheran clergy. The idea is for priests […]
The Brooklyn Bridge Park is exactly where one would expect to get an extraordinary view of the world’s most famous suspension bridge but a new development has intruded and some say is violating an agreement that was specifically designed to protect the sites. Now community members want the upper portion of the building removed. Otis […]
A female coyote was reportedly caught by the Parks Department in Stuyvesant Town on Sunday. No one knows exactly how she made her way to the heart of such a densely populated area of Manhattan, far from any wildlife. After being sedated, the coyote was given the name Stella and authorities planned to release her […]
