Month: February 2015
Punk band Fake Hooker’s guerilla marketing game in Williamsburg is on point, although HOOKER might disagree. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A subway busker who apparently values his life at less than $5 risked death to fetch a bill that landed on the subway tracks in Brooklyn. A video posted to Reddit shows a very terrible human being tossing a five-dollar bill that had no shot at landing across the platform. The busker, without hesitating, flings […]
According to a new study, the massive decline in honeybee populations can be explained by young bees that are forced to work at too young of an age. Typically, a bee isn’t required to get a job until it’s 2-3 weeks old, but researchers from Queen Mary University of London say that in colonies where […]
A Brooklyn grand jury has indicted rookie cop Peter Liang in the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley, reports NY1. According to the New York Post, the charges include manslaughter in the second degree. Liang and another officer were patrolling East New York’s Pink Houses on November 20 and entered the building. As Liang was opening […]
The supercomputer technology that previously won Jeopardy is now heading to Japan to learn Japanese and develop cognitive abilities, the New York Times reports. With Japan’s SoftBank, IBM’s Watson will be able to perform “human-seeming tasks” like “parsing language, interacting in sympathetic ways and deducing important contextual information from huge amounts of data.” The hope […]
A few weeks back, ANIMAL received an email from an account belonging to 5WPR’s semi-insane CEO Ronn Torossian. The subject read: “The DJ of The Kremlin Visiting NY – Plays for Putin, Medeved, Prokhorov & others… Interested in interviewing the DJ to the Oligarchs?” We replied yes, because why not? One of Torossian’s underlings responded […]
Detective Sekou Bourne, the same cop who knocked a teen unconscious for smoking a cigarette, is now being accused of tackling a woman to the ground for sucking on a lollipop. A new complaint filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board alleges that Bourne and Sargeant Afzal Ali raided Malik Saunders’s East New York apartment […]
Queens Community Board 2 has a problem with clever marketing, reports DNAinfo. Hunters Point local business Sugardaddy’s recreated parking tickets as part of a marketing campaign to highlight free lunch and $5 drink specials. The strip club’s advertisements were so spot-on that local residents feared the NYPD, no longer on a slowdown, was on a […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile yarn-bomber and spreader of love, London Kaye. Name/Alias: London Kaye Decade you were born in: Late ’80s, baby. City you currently live: Bushwick, Brooklyn. Drugs or natural highs? Marilize Leguana. How did you get your name? I was […]
Just months after the Department of Investigation showed how easy it is to get drugs, razor blades, and vodka into Rikers, the New York Daily News reports that a visitor made it past “initial screening” with a 12.5-inch butcher knife. The knife was discovered later “in a secret compartment on the side of his knapsack.” […]
