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Some prisoners at Rikers do a thing called “splashing” where they fling bodily fluids at corrections officers. You know, like Miggs in Silence Of the Lambs. The Department of Corrections unveiled a proposed budget yesterday that calls for $733,248 for forensic testing to “test department uniforms as a result of splashing incident,” the Observer reports. […]
Anyone relieved that the NSA cellphone record collection has expired will find a new surveillance issue to be concerned about with this new, frightening report from the AP: The FBI has a fleet of at least 115 airplanes equipped with cameras and cellphone surveillance technology, flown under the cover of fake companies set up by […]
For years, New York City’s smallest museum was Mmuseumm, a 60-square-foot collection of artifacts (including the shoe thrown at George W. Bush!) housed in an abandoned freight elevator in Cortlandt Alley in Tribeca. But Mmuseumm’s founder Alex Kalman is ambitious, and by dreaming big he dreamt even smaller: Mmuseumm 2, which opened on Saturday, is […]
The yellow taxi industry is in full-on “throw it against the wall and see what sticks” mode, trying to slow down the Uber juggernaut. At the behest of taxi industry financiers, state Supreme Court justice Denis Butler has ordered City of New York lawyers to appear before him and argue why the court should not […]
You may breathe New York air without any hesitation, but would you eat it? That’s what the folks behind the smog cart, an installation at the New Museum’s Ideas City festival, wanted people to consider when they doled out smog-infused meringue cookies to people on Saturday. The project was meant to increase awareness about the […]
Starting in September, New York City public high school kids will be instructed on how to properly put on a condom in health classes, the AP reports. Prior to the change in policy, students who wanted a demonstration rather than verbal instructions had to go to a “health resource room.” In a statement Monday, the […]
Khalid, 1WTC. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The new observation deck at the One World Trade Center: great for tourists, not New Yorkers. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Tech companies attempting to address their diversity issues should should take note of Brooklyn, the city leading the country in female entrepreneurship. Crunchbase recently published an analysis tracking the gender of founders whose start-ups received an initial round of funding between 2009 and 2014. And New York City — particularly Brooklyn — is leading the […]
The Daily News reports that contradictory surveillance video exists of a 2012 police car crash that killed one man and left another braindead. According to the official report, Ronald Herrera lost control of his dirt bike while trying to pass the cruiser on Walton Avenue in the Bronx. He swerved in front of the car, […]
