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Evolution Market, the darknet black market site that sold everything from stolen credit cards to hard drugs, is gone. The site won’t load, and all the bitcoins are gone as well. Evolution staff members announced the pseudonymous administrators “Kimble” and “Verto” have taken all the bitcoins and run. Many merchants and buyers are despairing, and […]
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer examined Census data and confirmed that full-time workers in New York have a longer average workweek than their counterparts in 29 other American cities, according to Crain’s. The average New York workweek, from CEO to security guard, totals 49 hours. That includes commute time. The biggest reason for the extended workweek, […]
For so many of us, New York City is like that younger sibling you love to rag on but will defend to the death of any non-family member tries to pick on him. Actress Chloe Sevigny, who lives in Brooklyn and got her big break in Manhattan, starred in a cute guide to New York […]
Gun control advocacy group States United to Prevent Gun Violence recently staged a gun shop on the Lower East Side for a PSA. With its twee signage and slanted font at 149 Orchard Street, the shop presented itself like any other LES boutique, but inside, it was full of rifles and revolvers. Potential gun buyers […]
Street fights are pretty much part of the deal on the bacchanalian tradition that St. Patrick’s Day has become, but here’s one that broke out in broad daylight just outside Bryant Park. The video shows a few presumably intoxicated people attempt to fight each other. As far as St. Paddy’s Day brawls go, this one […]
George, Coney Island. (Photo: David Tan) […]
Take an unauthorized tour inside 190 Bowery, the massive six story building on Bowery and Spring with all the graffiti in it. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Gothamist has released a video in which a cat and a dog are fighting in the middle of an active intersection, while bystanders are cheering. The cat, called Heathcliff, maintains a defensive stance and fends off the dog. Neither are on a leash. A woman is seen kicking the cat repeatedly, though it’s not clear […]
Comedian Patrice O’Neal died in 2011, and now his former fiancee Von Decarlo and producer/director Mark Farrell have launched an Indiegogo campaign to crowdfund a documentary about his life and work called Better Than You – The Official Patrice O’Neal Documentary. The producers told Indiewire: We want to do this movie the way Patrice led […]
In July of last year, talented graffiti artist Jason “DG” Wulf passed away and dedication pieces to him quickly started getting painted from Queens to Moscow. Every year, the artist collaborated with other writers to paint walls celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Recently, in the Williamsburg-Bushwick section of Brooklyn, writers RIBS, ZIM, CS, GHOST, GIZ, KITE, […]
