Month: April 2015
For more than five years now, the non-profit No Longer Empty team has been taking over some of the city’s grand old abandoned buildings and, without much cleanup or fussiness (you usually have to sign a waiver to get in), transforming them into giant art installations. They use or commission pieces that play off the […]
Cops in Fort Greene are handing out tickets to cyclists like Oprah giving out cars, probably yelling, “You get a ticket! And you get a ticket! And you get a ticket!” to riders caught running red lights. Summons for bicycle-related offenses have increased 600 percent in the 88th Precinct this past month, DNAinfo reports (from […]
A group of anonymous Black Lives Matter protesters temporarily took over the Union Square Forever 21 on Sunday, replacing mannequins’ threads with Black Lives Matter sweatshirts and placing a Black Lives Matter banner across a window. The anonymous collective, who goes by the Never 21 Project, wasn’t protesting Forever 21. Rather, they pulled the stunt […]
Colossus, Battery Park. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
All this weekend the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is hosting Sakura Matsuri, the crazy-popular celebration of Japanese culture and cherry blossoms. As usual on Saturday, huge crowds caused total clusterfucks at all entrances, but once people got inside everyone seemed to be having a pleasant day, picnicking and lounging, watching the Taiko drumming and Samurai sword-fighting […]
Once buffed, graffiti pieces by GIZ, AMAZE, and GHOST are coming back to life now that the paint is fading. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A surprisingly cute herd of bison trotted through upstate New York on Friday after they escaped from a farm near Albany. In the video above, taken by NBC, their jaunt through the town of Bethlehem is oddly serene and uplifting. Just try and watch it and not feel some joy for the creatures as they […]
The Upper West Side coyote has grown more brazen, venturing out from the wooded parkland and into the middle of Riverside Drive Thursday night. NBC New York got footage of the coyote trotting down the street like a jogger who thinks he’s too fast for the sidewalk. This is now the third night this coyote […]
Real estate and contemporary art have replaced gold as the most popular way for the superrich to physically store wealth, Bloomberg reports. Laurence D. Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said at a conference in Singapore that art and apartments are great asset classes for because they’re both less volatile […]
Tommy Stathes only graduated from college two years ago, but he is already one the country’s foremost experts on old school animation. The New York Daily News credits the 26-year-old Queens native as being “by far the youngest serious collector of old cartoons in the country,” an expertise that was cultivated long before he graduated […]
