Month: April 2015
Kris, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artists CASH4 and SMELLS advertise their crew “1-900 number” in Brooklyn. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ShotSpotter, the NYPD’s controversial gunshot-detection system introduced in some precincts in the Bronx and Brooklyn last month, may be starting to prove its usefulness. ShotSpotter uses highly sensitive audio equipment to triangulate the location of gunshots, making it faster and easier for police to respond. The Daily News reports that on Monday the technology alerted […]
Portrait artist Rusty Zimmerman, who has painted Governor Andrew Cuomo and has appeared in the New York Times, is opening up his services for the people who lives in Crown Heights. DNAinfo reports that the 5-year Crown Heights resident is launching “The Free Portrait Project: Crown Heights,” in which he will attempt to paint portraits […]
Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, writing for the Observer, describes a harrowing ride with a drunk Uber driver last week. Henriquez was at a party on the Upper West Side where she noticed a man getting very drunk. He left before her, and when the host called her an Uber about an hour later, she was shocked […]
Two women who lived in an apartment in 129 Second Avenue, next to the buildings that collapsed in the East Village explosion in late March, are suing the city for $20 million — each — for physical and mental damages. The blast killed 2 people and injured nearly 2 dozen others, sending 4 people to […]
“No Your City” is an 8-part mini-documentary series profiling interesting characters in New York City, now in its second season. Episode 1 introduced us to Washington Square Park’s Larry the Birdman, and episode 3 follows street performer Qween Amor as s/he (Qween Amor’s preferred pronoun) twerks around Times Square. “Gay people are not here to […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile MRtoll. Name/Alias: MRtoll Decade you were born in: ’70s City you currently live: I live between Brooklyn and L.A. My child lives in Brooklyn and my partner (Paola Baldion) is based in Hollywood. I am walking a fine […]
The city has paid a $300,000 settlement to the family of a now-deceased Rikers Island inmate who was paralyzed from the waist down after doctors failed to adequately treat his severe fungal infection, DNAInfo reports. Jose Ferrer, who died in 2010, was incarcerated at Rikers Island in August 2008 for failing to complete a drug […]
A German sociologist who probably doesn’t get along with his neighbors made a pet project out of studying the habits of dog walkers to determine why some people don’t clean up after their dogs. In a study published in the journal Environmental Sociology, too-perfectly-named professor Matthias Gross observed folks walking their dogs in public places […]
