Month: May 2015
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Atlanta’s Awful Records crew has been compared to Odd Future circa 2010, with […]
The state’s former top homeland security advisor is now in charge of safeguarding weed. The New York Daily News reports that Michael Balboni, who served both Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, has been “hired as a security consultant for pot grower Empire State Compassionate Care.” The organization hopes to be one of the five entities […]
Bernie, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Mural by Magda Love, the artist we profiled in this week’s Scratching the Surface feature. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Curbed has been documenting the year-long demolition of Roosevelt Island’s 900,000-square foot Goldwater Hospital, which recently wrapped up to make way for Cornell’s New York tech campus. On Tuesday, the site published a video chronicling the destruction of the 1939 building from start-to-finish. The first phase of construction is slated to finish in 2017, which […]
This video was filmed in the Herald Square subway station yesterday by Martin James and brought to our attention by Gothamist. It is approximately 900 million roaches crawling all over a piece of food and each other. It will make you do a little dance of revulsion as you watch it. Dinner A video posted […]
A photographer named Steve Butcher who has lived in the Lower East Side for more than 30 years shared a treasure trove of vintage photos of the neighborhood with Bowery Boogie. The color photos are from between 1980 and 1985, and the black-and-whites are from 1996. It’s of course old news that the Lower East […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Magda Love. Name/Alias: Magda Love. Decade you were born in: Oh the wonderful ’70s! City you currently live: Brooklyn, New York. Drugs or natural highs? Natural highs have always being very powerful for me. I have learned more […]
Hey guys, you can stop looking for the dumbest story of the week, because we found it. It’s in the New York Daily News today, and it’s about a sailor in town for Fleet Week who was refused entrance to the Top of the Standard because she was wearing her naval outfit. Pretty much everything […]
A new study by researchers at Columbia University’s School of Public Health has found that the effects of city’s polluted air are especially bad for children from low-income neighborhoods. The study, published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology, monitored 276 New York City mothers and their children over a 7-year period, starting from when the mothers were […]
