Category: News
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Think Before You Hit Send: That’s the message police brass are sending to cops and civilian workers in the department ahead of issuing “official NYPD email accounts,” reports the Daily News. The emails are for work only according to the paper, and like the NYPD’s pilot Twitter program, guidelines are being given to officers to […]
Clayton, Bowery. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Columbus Circle looking frozen like the rest of Manhattan. (Photo: Lainna Fader) […]
El-P and Killer Mike of Run the Jewels have been sending their fans a lot of love lately. After releasing their new album online for free in October and later agreeing to produce its Kickstarter-funded, LOLCats-inspired remix, the duo teased fans with a photo of them working in the studio with British trip-hop group Massive […]
Farts in a jar: once a homeopathic cure for the Black Death, later a video game accessory and a crappy parody song, are now the scatological inspiration behind a shitty Kickstarter project. The project, founded by Roy Stanton, sells farts from 80 different countries that come to you in tightly sealed, small glass jars. For […]
My first helicopter flight, scheduled for 1:30PM on Saturday with NYonAir, was cancelled – as soon as we got to the Kearny, N.J. heliport, a heavy snowstorm rolled in. With zero visibility, we weren’t going anywhere. So NYonAir kindly rebooked us for the next day, as one member of our group had a flight to […]
Eric Fisher, a man who turns human movement into art through his unique maps, has created an interactive world map that shows how tourists and locals occupy major cities via their tweets. For “Tourists & Locals,” Fisher mapped geo-tagged tweets between September 2011 and May 2013 and ascribed a blue color to locals and the […]
One of the city’s best commuter options, the East River Ferry, was forced to shut down its operations earlier today due to the arctic-like ice buildup all along the East River. Due to ice, we are suspending service until further notice. Please see our web advisory before traveling, as conditions may change abruptly. — East […]
An Oregon man who stopped to take a selfie on train tracks along the Kalama River has died after being hit by an Amtrak train. CBS reports that the man was accompanied by a woman on his trek from Tacoma to Portland when the two stopped to take a smoking break. Cowlitz County Sheriff’s deputy […]
On Saturday it snowed again in New York. Here are some closeups of what snowflakes looked like in some of the city’s trendiest neighborhoods. ANIMAL documented the various flakes in action using a DSLR I hacked with the Pentax 25mm 1.4 TV lens that’s usually found in 1″ CCTV security cameras. Check out ANIMAL’s previous […]
