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Bed-Stuy, do or die. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
FAO Schwarz, the famous toy store from the movie Big as well as real life, will be closing its Midtown flagship in July, priced out of the neighborhood despite offering a luxurious shopping experience. So luxurious, in fact, that there oncer were princesses on staff. Hopes & Fears has an interview with Heather Sparx, an […]
If you received a package via UPS in the past few months, you may have picked it up not at home, but at a local businesses or bodega in New York. This is part of UPS’s new “Access Points” program, being unveiled across the city (and the world) as an alternative for people whose packages […]
The NYPD has pinned 11 muggings since early Febuary on a cycling thief who rides up on a either a Citi Bike or a regular bike with a basket on the front and snatches purses away from women. Not very intimidating, but effective. He’s like a real-life “on my way to steal your girl” meme, […]
In a thought experiment that demonstrates how science can be as fantastical as religion or magic, a mad scientist named Fergus Simpson from the University of Barcelona is publishing a paper in the journal arXiv that uses a mathematical approach to determine the population and body size of alien races. According to Live Science, who […]
Every artist has a preferred medium, and Vincent Castiglia’s happens to be human blood. In fact, for the past 12 years, that’s all he’s used to create his monochromatic, sepulchral paintings of haunting figures, crucifixes and skulls. The 33-year-old Brooklyn-based artist has painted for Margaret Cho (with her blood), hosted a solo exhibit at H.R. […]
Is NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton okay? He seems like he’s at the end of his rope. He’s been on a tear of saying some crazy shit in public the past few days: on Sunday he said he needed 450 new cops so he could fight ISIS, and on Wednesday, Capital New York reports (link behind […]
Ahmed Mohammed, the vendor hawking hot dogs and pretzels for up to $30 at a street corner adjacent to the 9/11 Memorial, has been ticketed. DNAinfo reports that he was slapped with three fines for failing to post prices. The amount of the fines has not been reported. NBC blew up Mohammed’s spot when the […]
A rampaging squirrel sent an MTA motorwoman to the hospital on Wednesday, according to the New York Post. The conductor was walking up the stairs at the Woodlawn station in the Bronx when apparently from out of nowhere the squirrel ran up and bit her. She was treated at Montefiore Hospital, and hopefully she got […]
Akutra-Ramses, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
