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Westhampton-Hampton Bays Patch has the scoop that the East Hampton Town Board will not be banning the use of personal helicopters on weekends in the affluent town on Long Island’s South Shore. The board handed down the decision on Tuesday, stating that the proposed helicopter ban was too restrictive. Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez proposed a 4-part […]
Drinking with your bosses can be an awkward enough social experience as it is, so imagine how weird it would be to drink with your future bosses as part of the interview process. That’s what Anheuser-Busch InBev is doing with its new recruitment effort to beef up its new commercial strategy office in Manhattan, Crain’s […]
An old man wearing a full New York Knicks sweatsuit was terrorizing straphangers on the subway with a gigantic dildo last weekend. Here’s the story, according to ANIMAL’s Aymann Ismail, who witnessed this around 9 PM on Saturday night aboard a Flatbush Avenue-bound 2 train: An older man of indeterminate ethnic origin boarded the train […]
I’m not going to sit here and make jokes about “stoners rejoice, Taco Bell may start delivering soon,” because that would be hacky. But it’s true: if Taco Bell were to start doing home delivery, it would be the best thing to happen to marijuana enthusiasts since vapes. In a riveting interview with Nation’s Restaurant […]
Kris, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artists CASH4 and SMELLS advertise their crew “1-900 number” in Brooklyn. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ShotSpotter, the NYPD’s controversial gunshot-detection system introduced in some precincts in the Bronx and Brooklyn last month, may be starting to prove its usefulness. ShotSpotter uses highly sensitive audio equipment to triangulate the location of gunshots, making it faster and easier for police to respond. The Daily News reports that on Monday the technology alerted […]
Portrait artist Rusty Zimmerman, who has painted Governor Andrew Cuomo and has appeared in the New York Times, is opening up his services for the people who lives in Crown Heights. DNAinfo reports that the 5-year Crown Heights resident is launching “The Free Portrait Project: Crown Heights,” in which he will attempt to paint portraits […]
Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, writing for the Observer, describes a harrowing ride with a drunk Uber driver last week. Henriquez was at a party on the Upper West Side where she noticed a man getting very drunk. He left before her, and when the host called her an Uber about an hour later, she was shocked […]
Two women who lived in an apartment in 129 Second Avenue, next to the buildings that collapsed in the East Village explosion in late March, are suing the city for $20 million — each — for physical and mental damages. The blast killed 2 people and injured nearly 2 dozen others, sending 4 people to […]
