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Retired NYPD Detective Specialist Anthony Planakis is one of those guys who, when he’s interested in something, learns everything there is to know on the subject. He has a lot of interests: photography, organic food, HVAC installation and maintenance. But his passion, since 1977, has been bees. He’s kept bees for years, first in Connecticut […]
Soho is too expensive for even the MoMA. Crain’s reports that the rent for the Museum of Modern Art Design Store’s 14,500-square-foot space at Spring and Crosby Streets is going up to $2.5 million a year after its current lease expires in 2016. The museum’s store, which was built in 2001, has seen its rent […]
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported (and ANIMAL and others repeated), that the new tenants of 190 Bowery are cool with the graffiti on the exterior of the building and want it to stay. But unfortunately, that may not matter — Matthew Moneypenny, the CEO of the unnamed creative conglomeration that plans on […]
Rakim, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A well-intentioned vandal offers their sentiment about development on the LES, just across the street from the newly demolished Essex Street Market, where new condos are slated to rise. Also, RIP KORN. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The gelada is a primate that’s closely related to a baboon but doesn’t have a big red swollen ass (instead it has a crazy-looking red flesh patch on its chest like a Sneetch). The Bronx Zoo has a collection of geladas, and its newest, youngest member just made its public debut, NBC New York reports. […]
State Senator Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) released a statement on Wednesday calling for a moratorium on use of the weed killer Roundup, citing a recent World Health Organization report that says that the active ingredient, glyphosate, is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Senator Hoylman’s statement reads, in part: “The initial research on Roundup is extremely troubling. Experts […]
The New Yorker has released 6 minutes of security camera footage from inside Rikers, giving the public a rare and disturbing glimpse into the prison’s “deep-seated culture of violence,” as a report by the United States attorney in Manhattan called it. The video shows two incidents that happened to Kalief Browder, who was arrested in […]
New York has always been a city of immigrants, but those immigrants have come from different places at different times, as Metrocosm’s new interactive visualization shows. Max Galka, who previously analyzed NYC filming locations, crunched Census records and other historical documents to get sense of where people emigrated from all the way back to when […]
Years after we saw Elaine dancing, or as George called it, a “full body dry heave set to music,” comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals the backstory about her amazing dance moves in Seinfeld during a talk at the 92Y. Sadly, she didn’t feel inspired to offer another performance (at least not in the footage above), but […]
