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Omari, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Writers continue to beautify historic graffiti wall in Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A New York City Councilwoman is joining a the movement to destigmatize periods by proposing legislation that would require the city to make tampons available to girls at school. The Post reports: “In a city where we hand out free condoms, we should be making tampons more affordable and accessible,” said Ferreras, a Democrat who […]
New York’s highly restrictive, not-cool-at-all medical weed program is expected to be enacted on January 1st. But for some patients, that’s just not soon enough. On Tuesday advocates asked lawmakers in Albany to pass emergency legislation allowing access to the healing properties of cannabis now. For many parents whose children are suffering from seizures, this […]
Residents of Williamsburg got a fun surprise on Tuesday evening, when Jon Batiste, the new band leader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, performed a surprise concert. can you meet me at 6pm on Bedford Ave and North 7th St? #socialmusic #loveriot pic.twitter.com/M7RMsj3IND — Jon Batiste (@JonBatiste) June 9, 2015 Gothamist, which snapped some […]
Continuing the long battle between Airbnb and the city, one city councilmember has proposed fining landlords who rent out apartments as hotel rooms via the site and others like it. If passed, landlords would face fines between $1,000 to $10,000 for first-time offenses, CBS reports, with a maximum penalty of $50,000. For each day the […]
NY1 and Baruch College conducted a poll of Bronx residents to determine, among other things, what nickname for their borough they prefer. By a large margin, survey respondents answered “the Boogie Down Bronx,” a reference to the borough’s status as the birthplace of hip-hop. The nickname dates back to the 1970s dance parties where DJs […]
Photographer Victor Thomas aka @vic.invades loves to explore places most people wouldn’t dare to go. The Brooklyn-based, NYC native shot and posted a short video to YouTube detailing some of his latest urban exploring hijinks. In one unsettling clip, he can be seen sliding down a steep roof. I asked the 20-something lensman if he […]
Here we go: Bill Bratton is demanding a “retraction and correction” of the Guardian story that quoted him saying, “We have a significant population gap among African American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” while discussing why the NYPD has a disproportionately low […]
Every comedian has jokes that they believe didn’t get the laughs they deserved, or tweets that didn’t get enough faves. ANIMAL’s feature 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. You might not yet know Josh Gondelman’s name, but […]
