Month: May 2015
Street art, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Sonic, the suburban fast food drive-in chain, announced its first location in New York City on Wednesday, an expansion for which junk food enthusiasts have been clamoring for years. The catch: it’s going to be located at 148 Page Avenue on the southern end of Staten Island. Staten Island residents are excited, but Manhattan-centric media […]
After 11 years of construction, the new World Trade Center is open to the public. Now that it’s completed, EarthCam has released a video chronicling the massive construction project. There’s something anti-climatic (and sad) about seeing more than a decade’s worth of time condensed into a two-minute video, but if this clip doesn’t do it […]
Fed up with the tyrannical monopolies and shoddy service provided by Time Warner, Comcast, and Optimum, a group of geeks have banded together to make their own citywide, community-owned wi-fi network; an indienet, if you will. The network, called NYC Mesh, links together routers, aka “nodes,” set up in apartments all over the city to […]
According to National Geographic, archaeologists in Russia dug up some golden cups while clearing out an ancient burial mound before construction workers installed power lines. Upon investigation, “archaeologists found thick black residue in the bongs, and determined that they were used to smoke cannabis and opium in a ceremonial setting.” The bucket-like solid-gold artifacts are […]
IBISWorld, a market research firm, has released a report showing that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drug sales are booming, and by 2020, will rake in $17.5 billion. It’s not just a loosening of diagnostic criteria that is making it so profitable. Workers can’t survive on the meagre earnings of a single job, and students […]
The 2nd Avenue subway station is 82% complete, meaning that we have a pretty good idea of what it’s going to look like. Now we have a preview of what it might sound like, too. A week after the MTA released photos of the construction’s progress, Untapped Cities has given us a a mysterious recording […]
Music has been part of the fabric of Washington Square Park since even before Bob Dylan times. But some worry that the park’s folksy heritage is being drowned out by loud drums and trumpets and even amplified music. Community Board 2 is considering tamping down on musical expression, perhaps by banning certain instruments, limiting hours […]
Ari Teman, the man who unwittingly rented his luxury apartment in Chelsea to the XXX Freak Fest orgy on Airbnb, has had a rough year. He was evicted from his apartment, and says that the fall-out put him on a city-wide tenant blacklist. Now he’s unable to find a new place in the city, and […]
Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is visiting New York City. Her hotel is in the Bronx. The Daily News reports that on Wednesday she hailed a yellow cab and asked the driver to take her to the hotel. Once the trip began, he told her that he didn’t know how […]
