Category: News
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Last week, the Film Society of Lincoln Center concluded its beautiful ode to an era, “Tell it like it is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986.” The survey of more than a dozen titles produced during the period, some never-before seen, offered a peak into an unheralded, often forgotten moment of visual storytelling which is […]
A new remix by video maestro Eclectic Method charts the explosion of house music, a force so powerful that it is now enjoyed by Russian delegates at the Kremlin. Learn, watch…and dance. (Image: Eclectic Method) […]
Airbnb has been spurned by city officials in New York, but it’s Paris that the apartment-sharing service is most interested in wooing right now. The site reports that Paris now boasts 40,000 rentals on the site, becoming the site’s top city. New York follows with 34,000 listings, while London has 23,000. The Guardian notes that […]
Robbie Ingui was waiting tables and studying to be an oceanographer in the mid-1980s when he first tried his hand at making neon art. He had been around neon all his life. His father Gasper owned a small neon specialty shop in Ridgewood, Queens called Artistic Neon Inc. (est .1971) and Robbie started poking around […]
Greenpoint and Williamsburg will see 53 new Citi Bike stations by the end of 2015, according to a report by the Brooklyn Paper. The paper, which first obtained the DOT’s expansion recommendations via Community Board 1, notes: The planned stations span the area from Flushing and Marcy avenues at the border of Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant […]
When speaking out against ISIS earlier this month, President Obama attempted to rein in those who maligned the entire religion of Islam based on the actions of radical groups. “Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed […]
Ed Mullins, the head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association and one of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s most vocal critics during the Eric Garner protests, has warmed up to the mayor after signing a new seven-year labor contract. The chummy banter that Mullins — who famously called de Blasio a “total nincompoop” for supporting protesters and […]
A Manhattan councilman has introduced a bill that would help drivers find vehicles that have been towed due to movie shoots, parades, construction or other planned events. When a car is taken to an impound lot over a normal parking violation, owners can locate their car via 311 or the Department of Transportation’s website. But […]
Jovani, Columbus Circle. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A years-old YOU GO GIRL, Lower Manhattan. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
