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Although she’s over 9,000 miles away, Sydney-based artist Karen Farmer has a close connection to New York. For the past few months, she has been getting requests by some of the city’s most notable graffiti writers to paint portraits of them painting graffiti. Farmer’s Instagram is peppered with her photorealistic renderings of EASY, DUEL, SEV […]
Not only is the massive new WTC transit hub over budget and very delayed, but it is also rusting. And, unlike the Barclays Center, the brackish color isn’t part of its design. CityLab writer Ben Kabak first noticed the discoloration in October, writing, “The stark white design of Calatrava’s rafters hulk over the streets even […]
According to a new study in the Journal of Medical Entomology, New York City’s rats are host to a flea that has been associated with the bubonic plague and the Black Death. Over the course of 10 months, researchers from Cornell and Columbia studied 133 rats from five different areas in the city, and found […]
Like the rest of America, Clinton Hill bodega owner Ricardo Rodriguez is giving A-Rod a second chance. When Ricardo Rodriguez first changed the name of his bodega to A-Rod Grocery 15 years ago, his Clinton Hill neighbors were delighted. “When he moved to New York, a lot of people got excited,” Ricardo Rodriguez said to […]
Aubrey, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This is what $4 billion gets you in Lower Manhattan. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
At a state senate hearing in Utah, the Drug Enforcement Agency provided compelling testimony about a bill being proposed that would allow human patients to ingest weed-laced edibles to treat certain medical conditions. Special Agent Matt Fairbanks said, in public, that the legalization of therapeutic pot could have a drastic effect on woodland creatures because […]
On Friday night, a group of Black Lives Matter protesters held signs and a banner as they linked arms across an exit from the Lincoln Tunnel, blocking traffic from the Manhattan-bound lanes for 11 minutes. That’s one minute for every time Eric Garner gasped “I can’t breathe” as Officer Daniel Pantaleo kept the unarmed man, […]
New York comedian Chris Gethard, whose 30-minute show debuts at Fusion in May, is already enlisting the help of his viewers. In a new video, Gethard, sans shirt, asks his fans to send in kitschy crap from their homes so the set of The Chris Gethard Show feels like an authentic basement. “I want it […]
Cody Wilson is well-known for stirring controversy. He masterminded the 3D-printed gun prototype that ruffled feathers. He now works on Dark Wallet, which could make tracking bitcoin transactions a lot harder for regulators. Most recently, the self-proclaimed crypto-anarchist tried to take down bitcoin’s leading non-profit, the Bitcoin Foundation. Bitcoin is, of course, a new technology […]
