Category: Takeover
The shiny new One World Observatory at the WTC complex opened to the public on Friday. The sun was beaming down on hundreds of tourists anxious to get corralled along the building, and eventually to its top. Although ticket holders had scheduled times, the building was running way behind. It was around 3:30PM, an hour […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. The music of Emanuel and the Fear lies somewhere between chamber pop and […]
Bumpy, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Street art, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The 2nd Avenue subway station is 82% complete, meaning that we have a pretty good idea of what it’s going to look like. Now we have a preview of what it might sound like, too. A week after the MTA released photos of the construction’s progress, Untapped Cities has given us a a mysterious recording […]
Jim, West Village. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A street artist breaks the cardinal rule, goes over graffiti writer EVIKT with this mess on the Lower East Side. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Did you hear? Manhattanhenge is upon us. This biennial “event,” in which the sun aligns with Manhattan’s street grid, is this weekend: On Friday and Saturday, hordes of Instagrammers will be able to see the sun setting precisely down the center of the city’s east-west asphalt corridors. (Pictured above: Andrew Dallos/2014, Vivienne Gucwa/2011, Katie Killary/2010) […]
On Saturday, I saw a flyer taped to one of those green lamp post boxes outside of Scratch Bread in Bed-Stuy advertising “Cat Hair Pills.” The poster’s body copy read: “Cat hair pills available. Made from the finest hair of organic, free-range cats with only occasional antibiotic usage. Two cat choices available, please specify which […]
From a documentary with a title like Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and Silk Road, one expects new details on how the Silk Road vendors and community operates, how bitcoin enables deep web markets, and a discussion that could bridge the gap for the average person between the anarchic cypherpunks and fear-mongering government […]
