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April 27, 2015 Prachi Gupta

A group of anonymous Black Lives Matter protesters temporarily took over the Union Square Forever 21 on Sunday, replacing mannequins’ threads with Black Lives Matter sweatshirts and placing a Black Lives Matter banner across a window. The anonymous collective, who goes by the Never 21 Project, wasn’t protesting Forever 21. Rather, they pulled the stunt […]

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Bucky Turco

Colossus, Battery Park. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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April 26, 2015 Scott Lynch

All this weekend the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is hosting Sakura Matsuri, the crazy-popular celebration of Japanese culture and cherry blossoms. As usual on Saturday, huge crowds caused total clusterfucks at all entrances, but once people got inside everyone seemed to be having a pleasant day, picnicking and lounging, watching the Taiko drumming and Samurai sword-fighting […]

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April 24, 2015 Aymann Ismail

Once buffed, graffiti pieces by GIZ, AMAZE, and GHOST are coming back to life now that the paint is fading. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Prachi Gupta

A surprisingly cute herd of bison trotted through upstate New York on Friday after they escaped from a farm near Albany. In the video above, taken by NBC, their jaunt through the town of Bethlehem is oddly serene and uplifting. Just try and watch it and not feel some joy for the creatures as they […]

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Liam Mathews

The Upper West Side coyote has grown more brazen, venturing out from the wooded parkland and into the middle of Riverside Drive Thursday night. NBC New York got footage of the coyote trotting down the street like a jogger who thinks he’s too fast for the sidewalk. This is now the third night this coyote […]

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Liam Mathews

Real estate and contemporary art have replaced gold as the most popular way for the superrich to physically store wealth, Bloomberg reports. Laurence D. Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said at a conference in Singapore that art and apartments are great asset classes for because they’re both less volatile […]

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Prachi Gupta

Tommy Stathes only graduated from college two years ago, but he is already one the country’s foremost experts on old school animation. The New York Daily News credits the 26-year-old Queens native as being “by far the youngest serious collector of old cartoons in the country,” an expertise that was cultivated long before he graduated […]

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Liam Mathews

Illustrator Tony Wolf has lived in Greenpoint since 1996, so he’s seen a lot of changes – he was there when the first “hipsters” arrived (“people always forget it started with the trucker hats,” he astutely notes). His autobiographical webcomic Greenpoint of View recalls the bygone bars and bands of the North Brooklyn neighborhood, rendered […]

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Liam Mathews

A bill recently reintroduced in the City Council by Ydanis Rodriguez, chair of the Transportation Committee, and Brad Lander, would require the private corporation that runs Citi Bike to publish “revenues generated by the Citi Bike program, whether the program had a deficit or a profit and how much such deficit or profit was, and […]

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