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A study by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction studied drug levels in wastewater in 50 European cities, the Guardian reports. They found that London’s sewage has the highest concentration of cocaine, at a daily average of 737 milligrams per 1,000 people in 2014. Amsterdam had the second highest concentration, and outstripped […]
Last month, Bayna El-Amin was caught on video smashing a chair over Ethan York-Adams’ head during a brawl in a Chelsea restaurant. York-Adams and his boyfriend Jonathan Snipes allege that El-Amin used racial and homophobic slurs during the fight. El-Amin is himself gay, and did an interview with black queer culture blog the G-List to […]
The NYPD says it has arrested a suspect after two women filed formal complaints saying that a man had groped them in Williamsburg in the past week. Police did not comment on the description of the suspect in custody, but they are urging any victims to come forward. One alleged victim — who has not […]
Four former CVS “market investigators” filed suit against the pharmacy chain in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday, alleging that managers at locations in Manhattan and Queens instructed them to racially profile black and Hispanic shoppers, the New York Daily News reports. The anti-shoplifting security guards were “directed to follow utterly despicable and racist directives. Specifically, […]
A study by Hunter College released Wednesday found that approximately 1 in 10 drivers blew through red lights at the intersections the survey monitored, reports the New York Daily News. Of the 3,259 motorists observed, 283 ran red lights. The study, carried out by Hunter’s sociology department, looked at 50 intersections throughout the city between […]
Henry, Bed-Stuy. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Budget dry cleaning in Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Wall Street Journal profiled seventh- and eighth-grade students of the Upper East Side’s Ella Baker School, where a math teacher named Michael Paoli had them raise a tank full of tilapia. The students cared for the fish all year, learning about science and math in the process. Now, the fish are teaching the students […]
You could be a part of a new art installation going up at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. The Brooklyn Eagle reports that artist Isabelle Garbani is “seeking volunteers to knit and crochet flowers out of plastic bags” for her project, “Post War Blues,” in which “thousands of colorful flowers…will burst out of a train car,” […]
I Quant NY took a closer look at the public data the NYPD released on moving violations issued during the slowdown that took place in December of last year and January of this year. Offenses under the rubric of “moving violations” were one of many that police enforced less during the slowdown, and I Quant […]
