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No Red Tape Columbia, the activist organization devoted to ending sexual violence on Columbia University’s campus, projected the phrases “Rape happens here” and “Columbia protects rapists” onto Low Library during a visiting weekend for prospective students. The Columbia Spectator reports: “It was all so unreal,” Evan Caplinger, a prospective student, said. “It was the juxtaposition […]
CityLab reported on the results of an interesting study that found a correlation between urban tree canopy (UTC), which is roughly the density of trees in a neighborhood, and neighborhood median income. The study, published in the journal PLOS One and led by Kirsten Schwarz, assistant professor of biology at Northern Kentucky University, compared high-resolution […]
Over the weekend, a group of activists made history by holding the world’s first-ever hologram protest in Spain. The virtual protest was devised by No Somos Delito (translation: We Are Not Crime), who projected a hologram in front of parliament to protest a law that, in part, bans protest in front of parliament. According to […]
Game of Thrones just premiered, but who gives a shit about White Walkers fighting each other with katanas or whatever when this kind of wild-ass street brawl is happening in the West Village? Like, this is the real-life version of the battle at The Wall, only instead of giants and woolly mammoths charging in at […]
The headline really says it all, but let’s elaborate, because this is amazing: A drunk dude in a taco suit rode a skateboard off the Williamsburg Bridge’s pedestrian ramp and crashed into a car. Ben Wilkes, a production manager at Baby’s All Right, recorded the incident on video and told ANIMAL that both the car […]
If you are among the majority of women who use either a tampon or a maxi pad during your period, then you are the woman McCarren Park’s giant vagina wants to talk to. In this video by UCB, correspondent and comedian Sue Smith travels to Brooklyn to impart essential wisdom that menstrual cup wearers already […]
One of the benefits of living in space is that you get to take great photos. NASA’s Scott Kelly snapped a stunning aerial shot over the weekend detailing parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and New Jersey. “Just flew over #NYC,” wrote the astronaut on Twitter. “One of my favorite places on Earth and yes, we have […]
Hours ahead of her announcement for presidential candidacy on Sunday, street art about Hillary Clinton’s campaign cropped up in Brooklyn Saturday night, reported The Weekly Standard. Clinton recently opened her campaign’s headquarters in Brooklyn. The art was well organized, mounted with hooks at impressive heights, including in-line with a traffic light. The posters read “Don’t […]
A cabbie with zero chill was ordered by a judge at the city’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings to pay $10,000 to a lesbian couple he told to stop kissing or get out of his cab, DNAInfo reports. The suit claimed that Mohammed Dahbi discriminated against Kassie Thornton and Christina Spitzer on September 18th, […]
Diablo, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
