Category: Takeover
With average height and a reed-thin frame, Vishavjit Singh is not an imposing presence, let alone a heroic one. But over the past few years, he has turned into a superhero for the South Asian community. Singh, a New Yorker who follows the Sikh faith, is America’s first turbaned Captain America. “I see things in […]
Isaiah, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
One of the world’s biggest food companies, Mars Inc., launched a new guerrilla campaign that would make New York City’s most ardent street artists proud. Adweek reports that stickers promoting Snickers were strategically placed by ad agency BBDO New York around Brooklyn and Manhattan — on both public and private company — to highlight the […]
Men in blue today get a bad rep, but they look like schoolyard bullies when compared to Michael Dowd, the ex-NYPD officer who slung crack cocaine in Brooklyn’s murder capital, East New York, at the height of the drug’s epidemic. Dowd, who served the 75th Precinct for a decade, made up to $4,000 a week […]
Alex and Jimmy, Williamsburg Bridge. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Edward Snowden bust that was illegally affixed to a war monument in Fort Greene Park has been recovered from the NYPD. The statue, which sat on a column in the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument for just a few hours on April 6 before park officials took it down, had been in police custody for […]
For several years, urban artist Tristan Eaton maintained a studio at 158 Roebling in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Although he’s long-gone from that space, he still curates or paints the walls there. This year, he invited graffiti twins HOW and NOSM, as well as Cyrcle, to create an eye-popping mural that stretches around the […]
There are many, many reasons to dislike Kim Kardashian, breaker of the internet, purveyor of selfies and symbol of mind-numbing, soul-crushing millennial vanity. But it was over her predilection for fur that a group of activists bombed her Tuesday signing for Selfish at a Midtown Barnes & Noble. A group of about 10 protesters, some […]
Vespa, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
On May 4th, there were two huge, tragic, and conflicting stories in New York City. One was the death of Officer Brian Moore, who was shot in the head in the line of duty on Saturday and succumbed to his injuries on Monday. The other was the non-indictment of Willie Groomes, the retired corrections officer […]
