Month: May 2015
A piece of wood fell off a Soho building and struck a woman on the head as she walked down the street Friday afternoon. The accident occurred just after 1 PM in front of 580 Broadway, the building that houses ANIMAL’s office. UPDATE: An FDNY spokesman told ANIMAL that he didn’t know what hit the […]
Two women who truly don’t give a fuck beat up a man who suggested they stop smoking weed in front of his Chelsea apartment building, DNAinfo reports. The incident happened April 29, when the man was walking his dogs in front of his West 16th Street building and noticed the two women smoking weed. DNAinfo […]
The enlightened already know that pigeons are underrated. But did you know they are were also muses for famous scientists like Darwin and B.F. Skinner? Watch Vox’s mini-documentary, above, to learn about how pigeons helped American society. […]
CityLab reports on a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that finds that New York is the world’s most resource-greedy city with a metropolitan area of more than 10 million people. The study, led by the University of Toronto’s Christopher Kennedy, looked at how 27 “megacities” consume resources and generate […]
With average height and a reed-thin frame, Vishavjit Singh is not an imposing presence, let alone a heroic one. But over the past few years, he has turned into a superhero for the South Asian community. Singh, a New Yorker who follows the Sikh faith, is America’s first turbaned Captain America. “I see things in […]
On Thursday, police released new security camera footage of the man suspected of brutally smashing a chair over Ethan York-Adams’ head during an apparent anti-gay attack on Cinco de Mayo in Chelsea. The assault is now being investigated as a possible hate crime. […]
Isaiah, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Grace Lang, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In 2016, scientists from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute will land a spacecraft on the moon. Strapped to the bottom of the lander with the intention to be left behind will be a little four-chambered capsule filled with art that represents life on Earth at the present moment. One of the chambers will contain thousands […]
One of the world’s biggest food companies, Mars Inc., launched a new guerrilla campaign that would make New York City’s most ardent street artists proud. Adweek reports that stickers promoting Snickers were strategically placed by ad agency BBDO New York around Brooklyn and Manhattan — on both public and private company — to highlight the […]
