Month: February 2015
New York City is working to curb unnecessary school suspensions with measures that aim to help students rather than just send them home or call 911, practices popular during the early tenure of the Bloomberg days. But considering that one part of the plan involves a partnership with the NYPD, it is unclear how much […]
“He’s become his death/The spark of the riots/That’s the way he’s blessed/To stay alive.” So begins the first English track by Russian punk band and human rights activist group Pussy Riot, as we see members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina in Russian riot police uniforms and being buried alive in the powerful music video. The […]
In the simplest of terms, a Brony is a bro that likes My Little Pony. But over the past few years, as the phenomenon has grown in popularity, that definition has come to encompass any adult fan of the make-believe equine universe. ANIMAL wanted to witness this culture firsthand and so we recruited the city’s […]
A local community has rallied together to save a feral dog from the cold, DNAinfo reports, after one woman started sleep with the wild dog in the woods to keep it warm. Washington Heights woman Denise Lauffer, a dogwalker with a habit of adopting feral dogs. Residents say that the dog, who Lauffer called Charlie, […]
The New York Daily News reports on “an internal NYPD directive” from February 6 that showed cops how they can use Siri to return lost iPhones to their original owners though the phone is locked. Apparently, the directive even outlined the steps (press the home button) and included what questions to ask. Now that every […]
Though they are hard to see (and even harder to photograph), bald eagles have been regularly wintering in New York City for the past 10 years. From Riverdale to Tompkinsville, bald eagles can be observed fishing in the frozen waters of the city from December to March, only to return to their nesting grounds when […]
For the first time ever, the New York Panel on Climate Change, an independent group that helps inform city officials on climate policy and put New York at the forefront of climate action among the world’s cities, has laid out the city’s climate risks until the year 2100. The report, which comes after a two-year […]
A transit group led by former city traffic commissioner Samuel I. Schwartz on Tuesday proposed a congestion-based toll system that, if implemented, would drastically change the city’s current traffic, reports the New York Times. The proposal, which comes from MoveNY, seeks to create tolls on high-traffic bridges and roadways that lead to Manhattan’s central business […]
Carl, Lower East Side. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Unauthorized Times Square. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
