Category: Takeover
Jello, Coney Island. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Mr OneTeas, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
If there’s one thing that Facebook has taught us all, it’s that social media is depressing — and it’s not the only over-sharing network that sometimes makes life feel like scenes from The Road. Researchers from Pace University’s Psychology Department have learned that Instagram could also cause some users despair. According to the newly released […]
Chris Gethard is the funniest man in New York. This is of course debatable, since Louis C.K. also lives in New York, but your odds of going to UCB and seeing Louie on any given night are much lower than seeing Gethard. Chris Gethard is a street-level New York guy who built his career on […]
“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. Atlanta’s Awful Records crew has been compared to Odd Future circa 2010, with […]
Bernie, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Mural by Magda Love, the artist we profiled in this week’s Scratching the Surface feature. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
While President Obama was saluting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, a group of protesters in New York sought to honor Americans who died in a very different kind of battle — victims of police brutality. Demonstrators with the Peoples Power Assemblies laid out black towels with outlines […]
In continuation of her “Gentrification in progress” series, street artist Gilf broke out her signature yellow crime scene tape and wrapped it around 190 Bowery sometime late last night. It survived the early morning, but by 10:30AM, the installation was removed and put in a trashcan. She has previously brought attention to 5Pointz and Pearl […]
Normally, community council meetings are intended to be opportunities for officers and civilians to meet face-to-face and discuss issues in the precinct, but on Wednesday May 20, the Lower East Side’s 7th Precinct hosted a special session, inviting the community to try out an NYPD firearms tactics training simulator. I was intrigued, because it seemed […]
