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Valentín, East River Esplanade. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A years-old FARO in Soho is “out of paint.” (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Adele Sarno, the 85-year-old woman who has lived at 187 Grand Street since 1962, has given up the fight against her landlord, the Italian-American Museum. She will be out of the apartment by June 30, the New York Times reports. Despite community support and attempts at intervention from housing rights activists, real estate development has […]
Maybe you have a cousin who’s a bad influence and gets you in trouble. Maybe you are that cousin to someone else. In any case, every family has a troublemaker, and that cousin is convenient scapegoat when you get caught. A guy in the Bronx used that excuse when he got caught 5 miles away […]
The New York Daily News reports that the meatloaf that made inmates at Rikers sick last month was confirmed to have been tainted with Brodifacoum, a rat poison, according to results from a laboratory study commissioned by the plaintiffs. “There’s no justification for rat poison to be in an inmate’s food whatsoever,” the inmates’ lawyer, […]
Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah, comedians and documentary filmmakers behind the movie The Muslims Are Coming, are fighting back against conservative activist Pamela Geller’s hateful subway ads with the best weapon in their arsenal: humor. They’re pasting up posters in subway stations with messages like “FACT: Grownup Muslims can do more pushups than baby Muslims,” […]
Photographer Al Marcus, who has been documenting the protests in Baltimore, sent ANIMAL this video of the stand-off between Baltimore cops and protesters from late Monday afternoon. The footage shows rioters throwing bricks at cops, and cops striking back with rocks as the cops pushed rioters into a neighborhood next to the Mondawmin Mall. “One […]
Every time someone puts in a fake 911 call that summons a real SWAT team or another large-scale emergency response, local residents suffer emotional distress, taxpayers lose money and officials waste crucial time and resources. After a spate of hoax 911 calls in the Long Island area — 53 since 2014 — Senator Chuck Schumer […]
At an MTA board meeting April 27, MTA chief financial officer Robert Foran warned that a 15% increase on fares and tolls may be necessary if the state government doesn’t provide funding for the MTA’s five-year capital plan, the New York Times reports. Foran says that the hikes may have to happen if the MTA […]
Hours before violence broke out on the streets of Baltimore, friends, family, community leaders, and elected officials held a memorial service for Freddie Gray, an unarmed black man who died from a spinal injury while in police custody. ANIMAL was there to ask the people one question: Why did you attend the funeral? Raspy Rawls […]
