Category: Takeover
“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. Soul singer Van Hunt has been around for awhile and even won a […]
Zod, Midtown Terminal – East River Ferry. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
For the past 14 years, since 9/11, residents of Park Row have been forced to cross through this NYPD security checkpoint to enter their buildings. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Since September 11th, the NYPD has maintained a security perimeter around its headquarters at One Police Plaza that’s unlike any other building in NYC. It includes the closure of smaller side streets and the occupation of Park Row, a vital 4-lane roadway that used to connect Chinatown to Lower Manhattan. For cops, the underutilized street […]
Over the weekend, a pair of graffiti artists from New York City went to Baltimore to create a tribute for police brutality victim Freddie Gray. Writers 2ESAE and VEW painted the memorial piece at the Gilmor Homes housing project where Gray was arrested and last seen alive. Already, it has spread throughout social media and […]
On Friday night, Irving Plaza hosted the sold out, 25th annual Night of 1,000 Stevies—an over-the-top celebration of rock icon and cult hero Stevie Nicks. One of NYC’s most decadent underground traditions, it was founded in 1990 by the legendary nightclub and event producers The Jackie Factory, and has become the largest and most beloved […]
Vincent & Jules, East River Esplanade. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In true May Day spirit, protesters occupy the Guggenheim to raise awareness about the museum using extremely low paid migrant workers to build its new branch in Abu Dhabi. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Migrant workers toiling away in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island have been working under under slave-like conditions for at least five years to build branches for world-class institutions, including the Guggenheim and NYU, but warnings from the Human Rights Watch and other activists have fallen on deaf ears. On Friday, a few minutes after 12 PM, […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. For this edition, Nathan Doverspike explains how he created his “New York Island” map. When researching the history of New York I created a mind map of all the possible objects I could add in […]
