Month: May 2015
The Big Short, the upcoming film adaptation of Michael Lewis’s bestselling book about the 2007 financial crisis, was filming in Soho on Wednesday at Houston and Broadway. Starring the Godly trifecta of Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Christian Bale, it’d be guaranteed to be a pleasurable viewing experience…unless you’re like us, and you’re a stickler […]
DNAinfo on Wednesday reported on a photo project that documents bits of trash all over Bed-Stuy deemed odd by the photographer, an ethnographer and UX researcher named Alexandra Larger. Larger, who is white, told DNAinfo that she was mystified by the number of single rubber gloves and chicken bones she sees littered all over her […]
New York City’s fireworks display is already the largest in the country, and it’s getting even bigger this year. The city is having not one, but two patriotic spectacles, Mayor de Blasio announced on Wednesday. The skies will be lit up over the East River at both Midtown and South Street Seaport. According to CBS, […]
On May 17, DEA agents raided a stash house and trap vehicle in the Bronx and found 70 kilos (approximately 155 pounds) of Mexican heroin, $2 million in cash, and a handgun. The bust is the largest carried out by DEA agents in New York City history. “This load was so large, it carried the […]
In March of 2013, urban artist Jay Shells launched his “Rap Quotes” project in New York, whereby he installed street signs emblazoned with rap lyrics in the specific locations that said lyrics called out. The series was so well received by the public (and the rappers he quoted) that, he went for another spin around […]
You have to be a special brand of sleazy to rip off tourists who are checking out Ground Zero, so of course NBC 4 went down to Ahmed Mohammed’s hot dog stand to witness this for themselves. The outlet reports that Mohammed has been inflating the prices for hot dogs and pretzels to arbitrary amounts […]
Coyotes are New York City’s most fearsome wild animal, but their reign may be temporary: Three different bear sightings were reported just a few miles outside of New York City on Tuesday, according to Lohud. The first bear incident occurred early Tuesday morning in Yonkers, just a few miles from the north Bronx. Officers from […]
Blain, Washington Square Park. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The 191st Street Tunnel is now open to the public after graffiti and street artists beautified it for the NYC DOT. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Learn how a single delayed train can cause delays throughout an entire subway line — and one strategy that train dispatchers use to get service back to normal,” writes the MTA in the YouTube description of a new 8-bit style video it produced. Apart from associating itself with the 1980s, a time period in NYC […]
