Month: May 2015
Artists work on the DOT’s beautification of the 191st Tunnel which is scheduled to open to the public tomorrow. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Community Board 5, which covers the core of Midtown including the stretch of super-luxury skyscrapers on 57th Street called “Billionaire’s Row,” has called for a temporary moratorium on the construction of buildings taller than 600 feet, DNAinfo reports. In a letter to Department of City Planning and Mayor de Blasio dated May 15, CB5 cited […]
On Monday, the NYC DOT held a press conference to unveil its “art beautification project” at the 191st Street tunnel in Washington Heights. The agency commissioned graffiti and street artists to paint the passageway that stretches for nearly four blocks… legally. Over the past few days they’ve been doing just that and expect to be […]
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, who wants to hire more officers but hasn’t been able to do so, finally threw up his hands and more or less said, “You know ISIS, right? They’re scary, right? Well, they’re trying to kill us. Right now. They’re on their way here. So we need 450 new cops so we […]
Jennifer Pawluck was convicted of criminal harassment last month and on Thursday was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and 18 months probation for posting a photo of street art featuring an illustration of a shot cop on Instagram, the Montreal Gazette first reported. The 22-year-old was also banned from posting publicly on social […]
The activists that run the Illuminator Collective, who protest injustice and corruption with guerrilla light projections in New York City and beyond, are suing the NYPD’s Central Park Precinct. Members Kyle DePew, Grayson Earle and Yates McKee are alleging false arrest and improper seizure of property, according to a press release. DePew, Earle and McKee […]
There are approximately three miniature golf courses in Brooklyn and they’re all wack. Brooklyn needs an Ocean City-style (New Jersey or Maryland, take your pick) mini-golf course, with pirate ships and windmills and all kinds of whimsical Rube Goldberg shit. If Brooklyn is going to be become a suburban nostalgia playground, it may as well […]
Tri Angle Records celebrated its 5th Anniversary in a decommissioned bank basement across the street from the New York Stock Exchange on Friday night. The Red Bull Music Academy event showcased what makes Robin Carolan’s New York/London-based electronic music label so distinctive and worthy of a retrospective after just 5 years: a roster of artists […]
Adderall™, a socially acceptable drug with wondrous stimulant properties, can help even the most distracted of persons focus, and not surprisingly, it is one of America’s favorite substances. The American Chemical Society claims that over 25 million people “rely” on the drug and according to published reports, untold millions abuse it. This video by the […]
Too often with videos documenting police brutality, we see one of two things: Either a crowd of bystanders looks on helplessly as officers abuse their power, or the crowd gets involved, and then there are mass arrests. In this video shot by Copwatch Patrol Unit member Michael Barber, however, neither of those outcomes happened — […]
