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July 20, 2015 Aymann Ismail

For “Listen In,” we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length 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. Cayucas is a West Coast answer to Vampire Weekend. The Santa Monica-based indie band uses Ezra Koening & co’s […]

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Keegan Stephan

Over the last week, New Yorkers marked the one-year anniversary of Eric Garner’s chokehold death with over a dozen events and actions across the city, from banner drops, to rallies with victims of police violence from around the country, to a march with over 1,000 people leading to dozens of arrests. The actions kicked off […]

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July 17, 2015 Bucky Turco

A one of a kind Clint Mario x ME sticker dispenser was among the many branded art objects on display at their pop-up gallery show. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Liam Mathews

Native New Yorker Lauren Joy Hoffman started noticing something weird as she walked New York City sidewalks: banana peels, banana peels everywhere! Baffled and bemused, she began documenting the banana peels she encountered using the hashtag #bananawatch2015 on Instagram. Since New York doesn’t appear to be overrun by apes nor clowns trying to get people […]

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Liam Mathews

Norte Maar settled in Bushwick in 2005, back when the property boom was just a gleam in a developer’s eye and long before Bushwick Open Studios was an enormous corporate-sponsored block party. The not-for-profit arts organization, which promotes and presents multidisciplinary artistic collaborations, set up a permanent location in an apartment on Wyckoff Avenue in […]

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Bucky Turco

“Are Clint Mario and ME here?” asked a hip-looking twenty-something dude as he rolled up to the one-night display of the street art duo’s work at the Krause Gallery on Wednesday evening. “Nah,” responded a person in the crowd, hanging out in front of the tiny space at 149 Orchard Street on the Lower East […]

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July 16, 2015 Aymann Ismail

Friends put up a fresh tribute to Jeffery KORN Gamblero. RIP! (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Bucky Turco

About half of New York City’s 50,000 cabbies are Muslim and for many of them, remaining observant isn’t easy in an urban environment where it’s hard enough to find a place to pee, let alone a place to park and pray. Muslims are required to pray five times daily between sunrise and sunset for a […]

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Liam Mathews

The first annual men’s fashion week has been happening in New York and today it comes to a close (its official title is New York Fashion Week: Men’s, but that’s a silly name that no one should actually say). For the past week, the world’s most fashionable dudes have descended upon Manhattan’s Hudson Square neighborhood […]

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Mike Immerman

Ollie, Jamaica Station. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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