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April 9, 2015 Liam Mathews

Sheepshead Bites reports that the Parks Department has caved to demands of luxury condo residents that a boardwalk comfort station (aka public restroom) be moved out of view. God forbid residents of the Oceana luxury condos on Brighton Beach should have to look at a beachfront comfort station that’s elevated to avoid being destroyed by […]

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Liam Mathews

A water main break at 13th Street and 7th Avenue in the West Village flooded the 14th Street station on the 123 trains Wednesday night, suspending service and making the station look like the set of a movie about Noah’s Ark in Manhattan. The Daily News reports that witnesses saw Con Ed workers jackhammering on […]

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Bucky Turco

Cleo, Williamsburg. (Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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April 8, 2015 Aymann Ismail

Stay vigilant on your commute home, the Dildo Terrorist is still at large. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Liam Mathews

Look at this kid! He’s an incredible athlete and also a big dumb-dumb. This video was originally posted by the Facebook group New Yorkers and shows a kid leaping between two subway islands at the Bedford-Nostrand stop on the G train. This is my stop, so I feel obligated to inform you that the center […]

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Liam Mathews

Artist Richie Brown has made a set of oracle cards (they’re similar to tarot cards, but he doesn’t call them that, because he doesn’t want actual tarot card readers to get mad at him) called the Brown Magick Oracle Deck. The fortune-telling symbols include a turd with eyeballs, a unicorn in a dress, and a […]

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Liam Mathews

It’s one of the myriad minor frustrations of apartment life: the people who live upstairs from you are so loud. It sounds like they’re rolling bowling balls or popping hundreds of balloons or clanking chains. In this sketch, though, Above Average reveals the secret: They really are doing all those things, creating an annoying sound […]

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Liam Mathews

A Brooklyn 16-year-old was arrested Tuesday night on charges of criminal mischief, arson and reckless endangerment for putting a metal sign on C Train tracks at Nostrand Avenue last Thursday morning. The train ran over the sign, causing a frightening explosion, as seen in the video above. This incident is apparently just one of many, […]

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Peter Yeh

Over 2,000 spaceships, including dozens over a kilometer long, with powerful weapons that can annihilate smaller ships in a single shot, are raining fire down on the few remaining defenders of the Ticonderoga, a space station that orbits a barren planet called ZXB-VC II. This all takes place in EVE Online, the popular space themed […]

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Prachi Gupta

A groundbreaking bill that would provide low-income tenants facing eviction with legal counsel is stalling, CityLimits reports. Similar to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963, which guaranteed defendants a right to an attorney in criminal cases, the Right to Counsel bill would give tenants tied up in housing court universal […]

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