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A peaceful protest against the city’s decision to budget $170 million to hire 1,300 new cops resulted in at least one arrest Tuesday night — because a protester sneezed. The arrest occurred in front of Gracie Mansion around 9 PM, after demonstrators gathered at City Hall, marched to Union Square, then took the subway to […]
Look at these mooks. The WorldStarHipHop video starts in media res, with one stupid man trying to force another man to either move over and let him sit or get up, because there’s only room for one idiot on this little bench. They’re holding the train up, because the conductor wants them to knock it […]
Every comedian has jokes that he or she believes didn’t get the laughs they deserved or tweets that didn’t get enough faves. Defending the Bomb gives a comedian the opportunity to explain one of these failed jokes and make the case for why it’s actually funny. Julio Torres is a rising star in the New […]
It would be nice to be able to retire in a condo or sweet penthouse apartment in New York City, but unless you are the super super rich, sorry, that’s probably not going to happen. In a rental economy, half of us are dumping more than a third of our income into our rent as […]
The Stonewall Inn was bestowed with individual landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday, becoming the first place designated a landmark primarily due to its importance in LGBT history, which also means that New York City officially (if tacitly) acknowledges that fighting back against the police can have a significant […]
Dwayne, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Read the Q&A we did with street artist and anti-harassment activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A gnarly looking Portuguese man o’ war, a “potentially deadly” creature according to NBC, washed up on Harvey Cedars Beach in New Jersey and officials are expecting that more will follow in the weeks to come. The carnivorous sea creature stuns its prey with its 10 to 30-foot-long tentacles. According to Associate Professor of Biology […]
Jay Maisel has had a successful career as a commercial and fine art photographer, but there isn’t money in photography the way there is in New York City real estate. It’s unlikely Jay Maisel would have set the new record for a single-home purchase in Brooklyn if he hadn’t sold his prior address, the famed […]
As more and more people discuss how terribly disrespectful it is to display the traitorous rebel flag in an official capacity on government buildings, online arts and crafts retailer Etsy is the latest company to announce that it’s pulling “Confederate flag items” from its “marketplace,” along with Walmart, Amazon, Sears, and eBay. In a statement […]
