Month: May 2015
Cool news on the 190 Bowery beat: the Landmarks Preservation Commission has approved restoration and renovation plans to the building that will retain the iconic graffiti on the building’s exterior, YIMBY reports. On May 5, architect Jørgen Cleemann presented his plan to the LPC, which will restore many fixtures including doors and windows, but will […]
In a horrifying assault caught on video, a man named Ethan York-Adams was smashed over the head with a heavy wooden chair while helping his boyfriend Jonathan Snipes get away from a man who had been beating him and saying anti-gay slurs. The assault happened Tuesday night in a Chelsea barbecue restaurant and was filmed […]
For several years, urban artist Tristan Eaton maintained a studio at 158 Roebling in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Although he’s long-gone from that space, he still curates or paints the walls there. This year, he invited graffiti twins HOW and NOSM, as well as Cyrcle, to create an eye-popping mural that stretches around the […]
This sounds like the beginning of a Law & Order episode: The New York Daily News reports that a coffin full of bones and garbage was discovered on the sidewalk in front of a house in Bushwick early Tuesday morning. Police were unable to immediately confirm that the bones were human. Medical examiners are currently […]
The Tribeca firehouse that served as the ghost-catching outfit’s headquarters in Ghostbusters will be closing for a 3-year-long gut renovation, according to Downtown Express — because that’s how long it will take to capture all the ghosts running loose in the building. An FDNY spokesperson told Downtown Express that the floor in the 110-year-old Ladder […]
DNAinfo talked to an allergist who said that your abnormally severe nasal allergies this spring are due to a “pollen tsunami,” which is a convenient excuse to use to deflect from your cocaine abuse. Dr. Clifford Basset, director of Allergy and Asthma Care of New York, said that the snow and rain this winter made […]
Avorham Gross seems like a pretty singular dude. Gross, formerly known as Roberto Eddy Santos, might be the world’s only Latin King who converted to Orthodox Judaism and then impersonated a police officer on many occasions. He was sentenced to 2.5 to 5 years for his impersonations on Tuesday, the Post reports. Gross converted to […]
There are many, many reasons to dislike Kim Kardashian, breaker of the internet, purveyor of selfies and symbol of mind-numbing, soul-crushing millennial vanity. But it was over her predilection for fur that a group of activists bombed her Tuesday signing for Selfish at a Midtown Barnes & Noble. A group of about 10 protesters, some […]
Vespa, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Look at this Street Evil Vandal, LES. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
