Month: May 2015
For the past 14 years, since 9/11, residents of Park Row have been forced to cross through this NYPD security checkpoint to enter their buildings. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The New Yorker’s May 11th issue includes a profile of the sculptor Charles Ray, tracking his life and career and peculiarities. One small section of the piece is devoted to the controversy around his piece “Huck and Jim,” a sculpture of the characters from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The sculpture depicts a […]
Arthur Wood, the 87-year-old artist who lived and worked in Clinton Hill’s famous Broken Angel house for more than 30 years, was evicted in 2013 after the city deemed the building unsafe. Due to timing and logistics, Wood was forced to leave some of his art behind. Now, the developer who bought the property and […]
The New York Post reports that there is at least one train-conducting degenerate splattering bottles of piss all over the N-train tracks at Astoria Boulevard on some “some men just want to watch the world burn“-type shit. Working on a tip from fed-up motormen who have had enough of their colleague treating the tracks as […]
The bust of Edward Snowden in Fort Greene Park seems to have inspired a trend: artists and activists erected statues of Snowden, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz Square on Friday as part of May Day celebrations, Newsweek reports. The sculptures were created by Italian sculptor Davide Dormino […]
Since September 11th, the NYPD has maintained a security perimeter around its headquarters at One Police Plaza that’s unlike any other building in NYC. It includes the closure of smaller side streets and the occupation of Park Row, a vital 4-lane roadway that used to connect Chinatown to Lower Manhattan. For cops, the underutilized street […]
Over the weekend, a pair of graffiti artists from New York City went to Baltimore to create a tribute for police brutality victim Freddie Gray. Writers 2ESAE and VEW painted the memorial piece at the Gilmor Homes housing project where Gray was arrested and last seen alive. Already, it has spread throughout social media and […]
Another day, another video of the NYPD being awful. In this video, uploaded to YouTube on April 30 by the man being arrested, two officers in the Bronx are seen illegally arresting a man during a traffic stop. The man set his phone camera to record and put it in the cupholder, which the cops […]
On Friday night, Irving Plaza hosted the sold out, 25th annual Night of 1,000 Stevies—an over-the-top celebration of rock icon and cult hero Stevie Nicks. One of NYC’s most decadent underground traditions, it was founded in 1990 by the legendary nightclub and event producers The Jackie Factory, and has become the largest and most beloved […]
The State Liquor Authority has fined hundreds of stores in New York City for selling alcohol to underage persons, the New York Daily News reports. The SLA sent in “decoys” to city pharmacies, liquor stores and bodegas across the city. Nearly 60 percent of the stories targeted sold to minors, and will have to cough […]
