Month: March 2015
CityLab has obtained a circa-1870 “stench map,” which shows the locations of what were called “offensive trades,” or industries that made the city stink. 19th century medical science believed that bad smells and tainted air caused diseases like cholera. The map was created by the New York Metropolitan Board of Health and can be found […]
Things are fucked up in Detroit. And they’re not just hidden-behind-the-scenes fucked up, but in-your-face fucked up. Throughout the city, there are deep pockets of half-collapsed buildings and blocks of burned-out homes. Once elegant places now look so abandoned that if it was not for the graffiti, there would be virtually no evidence of human […]
PlaceLive, a quality-of-life data reporting platform, compiles information about things like affordability and safety and presents the data in helpful map form. It shared some of its detailed maps of noise complaints throughout New York City with UpOut, and the results are kind of surprising. It gets pretty granular, looking lot-by-lot. The most noise complaints […]
As it stands, you pretty much have to dig through the trash, as ANIMAL did, to find the set of rules patrolling officers are meant to obey while on duty. But one lawmaker wants to change that. The New York Daily News reports that Councilman Dan Garodnick (D-Manhattan) will be introducing legislation that requires the […]
In a highly symbolic moment for the forever-on-the-verge-of-collapse Coney Island amusement park, the legendary Cyclone roller coaster froze during the ascent of its very first ride of the season on Sunday. Riders were forced to climb down the coaster on foot, in what was probably a more exciting turn of events than another ride on […]
Days after his height-soaring exploration of the Triborough Bridge generated alliterative headlines and a public scolding from Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, a teenage adventurer poked the hornet’s nest yet again by conquering another bridge. Over the weekend, the young man who goes by the by the alias @icarus_nyc on Instagram, along with an accomplice, climbed […]
“No Your City,” the 8-part mini-documentary series that profiles some of New York City’s interesting “street characters,” is back for a second season. It opens with Larry the Birdman. If you frequent Washington Square Park, you’ve probably seen Larry with pigeons in tow, but do you know his story?: “I went to prison for 20 […]
Firefighters have uncovered two bodies from the site of the East Village wreckage, the New York Times reports. One of the bodies has been identified as 23-year-old Nicholas Figueroa, who was on a lunch date at Sushi Park when the Second Avenue building exploded. The other man is thought to be 27-year-old Moises Ismael Locón […]
Sonny, Kips Bay. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
With the blessing of his family, activists created a memorial and held a vigil for John Collado, the Inwood man shot by police nearly four years ago. (Photo: Keegan Stephan) […]
