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“No Your City” is an 8-part mini-documentary series profiling interesting characters in New York City, now in its second season. Episode 1 introduced us to Washington Square Park’s Larry the Birdman, and episode 3 follows street performer Qween Amor as s/he (Qween Amor’s preferred pronoun) twerks around Times Square. “Gay people are not here to […]
The city has paid a $300,000 settlement to the family of a now-deceased Rikers Island inmate who was paralyzed from the waist down after doctors failed to adequately treat his severe fungal infection, DNAInfo reports. Jose Ferrer, who died in 2010, was incarcerated at Rikers Island in August 2008 for failing to complete a drug […]
A German sociologist who probably doesn’t get along with his neighbors made a pet project out of studying the habits of dog walkers to determine why some people don’t clean up after their dogs. In a study published in the journal Environmental Sociology, too-perfectly-named professor Matthias Gross observed folks walking their dogs in public places […]
The hallowed grounds of Prospect Park, site of goat heads and other creepy things, burst into flame on Monday night as a fire coursed through it. According to CBS2, the was reported around 8:20 PM and put out by 10:20 PM. ABC reports that about 60 firefighters arrived to the scene, in the southwest area […]
In court documents filed this week, luxury retailer Barneys says it didn’t violate anyone’s civil rights by calling the police on a 20-year-old black man who bought an expensive belt from Barneys’ Madison Avenue flagship in 2013. “At most, (Barneys) is merely alleged to have notified the NYPD of plaintiff’s purchase. Simply providing information to […]
Fuck the Police (State): Artists Protest Removal of Edward Snowden Sculpture With Ghostly Projection
Inspired by the Edward Snowden bust that guerrilla artists erected atop a Brooklyn war monument on Monday morning, a different group of artists returned to the site hours after officials dismantled the illegal statue. They deployed the Illuminator to project an eerie blue image over the column where the 100-pound bust had stood earlier. In […]
Carl, Kips Bay. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artists snuck a 100-pound bust of Edward Snowden into Fort Greene Park just before dawn on Monday morning. By the afternoon, NYC Parks Department workers and NYPD had removed the sculpture. RIP Edward Snowden’s bust. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Have you ever wanted to be a corporate-level patron of art, commissioning artists to make something that’s all about you, but you don’t have the money? Well, this new Kickstarter from Electric Objects will allow you to become a mini-Medici. At the completion of the drive, each backer will receive a short survey about who […]
It took them over 2 hours, but cops were able to talk a suicidal woman off the ledge and back to safety when she tried to jump off the Kosciuszko Bridge on Monday, the New York Post reports. The woman was taken to Elmhurst Hospital. According to a witness, she is a Polish immigrant with […]
