Month: May 2015
Jim, West Village. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A street artist breaks the cardinal rule, goes over graffiti writer EVIKT with this mess on the Lower East Side. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The production company that brought the world Bum Fights and other incorrigible films, recently documented what they’re calling the “largest illegal graffiti piece in the world.” It was painted by West Coast graffiti writer AWARE, who has done some clever freights and other large scale actions on an old runway outside of Cuddeback Lake in […]
Even Joe Biden anecdotally knows our airports are terrible, but now there are numbers to back it up: A study by airport advocacy group Global Gateway Alliance found that Kennedy, Newark and LaGuardia have they highest percentage of tarmac delays of any airports in the country, the Daily News reports. A total of 6,788 flights […]
Did you hear? Manhattanhenge is upon us. This biennial “event,” in which the sun aligns with Manhattan’s street grid, is this weekend: On Friday and Saturday, hordes of Instagrammers will be able to see the sun setting precisely down the center of the city’s east-west asphalt corridors. (Pictured above: Andrew Dallos/2014, Vivienne Gucwa/2011, Katie Killary/2010) […]
Wass Stevens is an actor who has appeared on House of Cards and in the movie The Wrestler. In a past life, he worked the door at clubs like Marquee and Avenue. According to Page Six, who talked with him at the premiere of a movie called Club Life, Jean-Michel Basquiat would draw little pictures […]
On Saturday, I saw a flyer taped to one of those green lamp post boxes outside of Scratch Bread in Bed-Stuy advertising “Cat Hair Pills.” The poster’s body copy read: “Cat hair pills available. Made from the finest hair of organic, free-range cats with only occasional antibiotic usage. Two cat choices available, please specify which […]
Anti-street harassment group Hollaback!, in partnership with Cornell University, has released the second part of its international survey on catcalling. With over 16,000 respondents from 21 countries, it stands as the largest study on street harassment to date. The results show, depressingly, that harassment is a universal experience for women all across the world. What’s […]
A horse veterinarian who conducted a study on stress levels in carriage horses gave a presentation to City Council members on Wednesday and claimed that the horses are not stressed, the Daily News reports. Joe Bertone, a specialist in equine medicine at Western University of Health Sciences, told several council members and their representatives that […]
From a documentary with a title like Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and Silk Road, one expects new details on how the Silk Road vendors and community operates, how bitcoin enables deep web markets, and a discussion that could bridge the gap for the average person between the anarchic cypherpunks and fear-mongering government […]
