Month: May 2015
Because new signage is probably pretty low on the debt-ridden MTA’s long list of future projects, one clever college kid took it upon himself to make New York’s subway system a little bit easier to navigate. RISD senior Ryan Murphy illegally installed a bunch of helpful signs at the 86th and Lexington station that helpfully […]
Even more than other parts of the city, Queens has a continuously growing immigrant population. The newest population boom, apparently, is coyotes, who have been spotted from Long Island City to Middle Village and most recently near LaGuardia Airport. A Postal Service employee noticed a lone coyote prowling a marshy area in East Elmhurst early […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Sean Vesce of E-Line Media and writer Ishmael Hope about Never Alone (Kisima Inŋitchuŋa), a lesson in “accidental ethnography.” Until a few years ago, E-Line […]
Slop buckets, when stripped of their smelly context, can make for some visually interesting art. This anonymous Tumblr, shared on Reddit, hosts a collection of photos apparently taken from the slop bucket (restaurant jargon for “liquid trash receptacle”) of a of a Park Slope restaurant. New photos are uploaded daily. The results function sort of […]
Men in blue today get a bad rep, but they look like schoolyard bullies when compared to Michael Dowd, the ex-NYPD officer who slung crack cocaine in Brooklyn’s murder capital, East New York, at the height of the drug’s epidemic. Dowd, who served the 75th Precinct for a decade, made up to $4,000 a week […]
It feels like the city is so crowded that there isn’t even room to breathe. You step out of your apartment into a swarm of people and you’re jostled and squeezed until you go to bed at night. You assume that now that New York is safe and formerly blighted neighborhoods are being repopulated, the […]
The New York Times reports that, for the first time since 9/11, pedestrians will be able to walk the “the length of the World Trade Center site” this June. That’s because the costly WTC transportation hub, now long overdue and well over-budget, is finally opening to the public. The Times reports that the rusty monstrosity […]
Alex and Jimmy, Williamsburg Bridge. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artist ADEK makes use of a blank billboard off the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Edward Snowden bust that was illegally affixed to a war monument in Fort Greene Park has been recovered from the NYPD. The statue, which sat on a column in the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument for just a few hours on April 6 before park officials took it down, had been in police custody for […]
