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A Crown Heights resident lost $1,100 worth of the futuristic digital currency bitcoin in an old-fashioned stick-up last week, DNAinfo reports. The man responded to a Craigslist offer to trade bitcoin for cash. He met the thief on May 27 at the corner of Troy Avenue and Crown Street, and got into a parked car […]
After being rejected twice, it looks flibanserin, the low libido drug for women, will become FDA-approved. If so, the drug will become the first sexual arousal for women on the market. The New Scientist reports that an FDA advisory panel approved it 18 to 6 on Thursday, provided that it comes “with a risk management […]
Emma Sulkowicz is an artist and activist who carried her mattress everywhere she went to protest her alleged rapist’s continued presence on the Columbia campus until her graduation last month. Rape has now become a recurring theme in her work, as her newest project is a disturbing video featuring herself in a sexual encounter gone […]
Catholic schools are notoriously strict. So maybe that’s why Latrell Davis’s mom, Ebony Martin, did not take pity on her 17-year-old son when he was barred from school, prom, the senior brunch, and the senior Mass after he was heard saying “Fuck Jesus” just outside the school’s church at a recent Mass. “He told me […]
Willie Groomes, the retired corrections officer who shot Gilbert Drogheo to death in the Borough Hall subway station on March 10, has been cleared of criminal charges and will not face a grand jury, the Daily News reports. He was previously not indicted by the Brooklyn DA last month. “’Following a full and fair investigation…I […]
Perseus, Midtown Terminal – East River Ferry. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Last night’s filming of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in Soho included these skeleton marchers. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Adam Lederer was nodding off during a 5:30 AM commute to Brooklyn on Thursday morning when he awoke to a very loud licking noise on the train (he couldn’t recall if it was an A or an E). “I hear audible licking. I open my eyes,” he told ANIMAL. “I can’t believe what I’m seeing.” […]
An 88-year-old Upper East Side man is suing Apple to try and keep the world’s largest company from opening their imminent Madison Avenue retail outpost, the New York Post reports. Herbert Feinberg’s lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, argues that the store is incompatible with the neighborhood’s “small and luxury retailers” and “well-known art galleries […]
Anthony Perosi, a self-described gambler, keeps all of his lottery tickets on a wall behind a copper pipe in his basement. That’s where a ticket with the numbers “08, 14, 39, 46, 47 and Powerball 18” was hiding for the past 6 weeks before he realized that he was the winner of a $136 million […]
