Month: April 2015
At the same time the City Council Speaker is working on a bill to decriminalize low-level “broken windows” offenses like drinking in public and turnstile jumping, two cops in Brownsville are handing out tickets for spitting, Gothamist reports. In a video uploaded to YouTube, a young man films two officers as they write him up […]
In the Flesh, a hardcore porn movie that came out April 10, has more on its mind than the average XXX flick, which is typically pretty focused on just one thing. In between In The Flesh’s scenes of fucking is the story of a suspiciously Christlike man, named Aman (people repeatedly ask “are you Him?” […]
The new occupants of the historic graffiti-covered mansion at 190 Bowery will “keep all of the building’s historic touches from its marble wash basins to the graffiti covering the lower part of the facade,” the Wall Street Journal reports. A recently-formed, as-of-yet-unnamed consortium of agencies representing creative professionals has leased 30,000 square feet of office […]
On Saturday, renowed interventionist and public art veteran Ron English finished up his mural at the Houston Bowery Wall. It’s a patchwork American flag comprised of the many corporate parodies he has done over the past two decades as unsanctioned billboards or paintings, punctuated by a very angry-looking Hulk-like toddler. I asked him why he […]
On Saturday, a tractor trailer crashed into a Brooklyn wall, half a block away from where traffic safety activists were putting up a gigantic mural dedicated to 264 people who were killed in traffic accidents last year. None of the dozen or so Right of Way activists were injured, but the irony of the incident […]
Retired Detective Anthony “Tony Bees” Planakis, the NYPD’s former expert in bee crime, told the New York Post that he was forced into early retirement by jealous-ass haters: “I had no choice but to retire. I was blackballed,” he said. “I was accused of stealing the bees, making honey and profiting. Lieutenants were jealous of […]
Ernest Magliato’s family donated a historic statue of the Madonna del Soccorso to Little Italy’s Italian American Museum back in 2009. Now, he wants to take his gift back over the museum’s treatment of Adele Sarno, the 85-year-old Italian woman who has lived at 185 Grand Street for 53 years. “Why should [museum founder and […]
A coyote attacked a man walking his dog in Northern New Jersey on Sunday night, NBC reports.The attack happened in Norwood, making it the second coyote attack in New Jersey this month, and yet another coyote sighting in the tri-state area in recent weeks. On April 14, a wild coyote was captured in Chelsea. Two […]
Isaac, Jamaica Station. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Another photo of Tug Life in New York City’s harbor. (Photo: Yojimbot) […]
