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NYC rapper Joey Bada$$ joined protestors in solidarity with the nation’s latest victim of police brutality, Freddie Gray. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Have you ever read Jonathan Lethem’s novel The Fortress of Solitude? The main characters, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, have a ring that gives them the power of flight. At one point, Mingus tags a high wall on the Brooklyn House of Detention, and people are baffled, because it appears that the only way to […]
DNAinfo has suggested that Box Kite’s “‘spro & tonic” is New York City’s “coffee drink of the summer.” According to DNAinfo’s Emilie Ruscoe, who mustered up the courage to try this concoction, the ‘spro & tonic is: a cold, bubbly concoction that’s made by adding a shot of espresso to a glass of tonic water. […]
A new report by Keeping Track Of New York City’s Children, an advocacy group that compiles data about New York City youth and the problems they face, says that kids who live in the Bronx face the highest risks. New York City has the largest child population of any city in the country with 1.8 […]
A survey measuring youth appeal of 55 cities around the world conducted by youth-oriented consulting firm YouthfulCities has anointed New York City the “most youthful city of the year,” Reuters reports. The survey used 101 metrics and surveyed 9000 young people all over the world in order to rank cities by how good they are […]
You knew Trump Ferry Point, Donald Trump’s overpriced golf course in a low-income and relatively isolated part of the southeast Bronx, was dumb. But did you realize it’s directly across the street from a housing project? That’s right! As you can clearly see in the video, shot from ANIMAL 3, the fancy name for ANIMAL’s […]
During an April 28 Community Council meeting, Capt. Frank DiGiacomo of Park Slope’s 78th Precinct refuted the Brooklyn Paper’s claim that officers issued 151 tickets for using a cellphone while biking in 2014, saying instead that all those tickets were for using headphones while biking, a dangerous activity that actually is against the law. “The […]
A former kink-party participant turned snitch tells NBC New York that an organizer of Cirque de Plaisir, a roving Manhattan fetish event, is a licensed physician. The whistleblower alleges that Dr. Edwin Perez, known in the D/s community as “Santos,” used his medical expertise inappropriately and perhaps in violation of his oath to perform “arterial […]
A commanding officer implicated in the 2009 NYPD whistleblowing scandal is apparently more concerned about a student film’s fictionalized account of his leadership’s effect on his reputation than the fact that he pressured his officers to take unnecessary and illegal action in order to meet their quotas. The New York Daily News reports that a […]
Over 100 people were arrested during protests for Freddie Gray in Manhattan on Wednesday evening. Demonstrators assembled in Union Square and held signs that read “Blue Lies Matter” and “Broken Windows Severs Spines,” among other placards showing solidarity with Baltimore and Gray, an unarmed black man who died after being injured while in police custody. […]
