Month: April 2015
New York has always been a city of immigrants, but those immigrants have come from different places at different times, as Metrocosm’s new interactive visualization shows. Max Galka, who previously analyzed NYC filming locations, crunched Census records and other historical documents to get sense of where people emigrated from all the way back to when […]
Years after we saw Elaine dancing, or as George called it, a “full body dry heave set to music,” comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals the backstory about her amazing dance moves in Seinfeld during a talk at the 92Y. Sadly, she didn’t feel inspired to offer another performance (at least not in the footage above), but […]
This time-lapse video documents the lifespan of a piece by the French artist JR, from placement to removal. JR creates photographic portraits and pastes them up (or down, in this case) on city streets. For this work, JR took a photo of Elmar Aliyev, a recent immigrant to Brooklyn from Azerbaijan, and then pasted the […]
A bill that would enable the state attorney general to investigate deaths of unarmed civilians in altercations with the police has failed in the state Senate. Capital reports that it was “voted down 20-16” in the GOP-led Senate Finance Committee. The bill was proposed by Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins after Eric Garner died at […]
Lillian, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This toxic-looking foam is just some of the polluted substances environmental activist Christopher Swain was exposed to during his brief swim in the Gowanus Canal. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Environmentalist Christopher Swain had the best intentions when he set out to the swim the entirety of the highly toxic Gowanus Canal on Wednesday afternoon. Due to some poor planning, logistical issues and an overly concerned NYPD, the event was delayed by over an hour. Although he eventually took a dip in the historic waterway, […]
E-ZPass is a system that allows drivers to pay tolls via an electronic tag that’s read by scanners at toll booths in order to expedite the payment process (shorter lines, no digging for change). You would assume that they’d only be located at toll booths, since that’s what they’re for, but The New York Civil […]
Equinox, the $225-a-month luxury gym chain, is getting into the hospitality business, the Wall Street Journal reports. Equinox will be opening its first health-and-fitness-oriented hotel in Hudson Yards in 2018, with a Los Angeles location set to open in 2019. They hope to eventually build 75 worldwide. Equinox’s parent company is Related Holdings, a real […]
On Wednesday afternoon, a 47-year-old man did the unthinkable: He plunged into the Gowanus Canal’s dark toxic cauldron of stagnant water, which is brewing with raw sewage, arsenic and gonorrhea, among a host of unknown substances. The man, Christopher Swain, entered the canal at Degraw and Bond Street just before 2 PM, from where he […]
