Category: Takeover
Morpheus, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
When President Obama announced that the U.S. would be lifting its sanctions on Cuba for the first time in 54 years, I had to jet down there and document the island nation before the massive and inevitable change that is sure to sweep across the entire country. I spent five days in Havana, the island’s […]
“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. Friend Roulette is an enigmatic weed-fueled chamber pop outfit from Brooklyn. They have […]
Check out our latest Scratching The Surface Q&A with street artist Bishop. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/AnimalNewYork) […]
Imagine a world that’s a mix of a Salvador Dali painting and World War II, where you’re a Nazi with hot dogs flying into your mouth as you sing while a man is squatting on your hand. Suddenly, a giant baby holding a flower is in the middle of the street; in the background, a […]
Three years ago, armed with a prestigious art degree, fluent bilingualism and stellar recommendations, I proudly entered the American workforce for the first time…as a stripper. After graduating in 2012, while my classmates followed their dreams by working odd jobs and investing uncompensated time at “career-building” internships in New York (where dreams are made, duh), […]
David, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s another shot of Manhattan from an urban explorer’s photo reconnaissance of the Queensboro Bridge. (Photo: @icarus_nyc) […]
Things are fucked up in Detroit. And they’re not just hidden-behind-the-scenes fucked up, but in-your-face fucked up. Throughout the city, there are deep pockets of half-collapsed buildings and blocks of burned-out homes. Once elegant places now look so abandoned that if it was not for the graffiti, there would be virtually no evidence of human […]
Days after his height-soaring exploration of the Triborough Bridge generated alliterative headlines and a public scolding from Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, a teenage adventurer poked the hornet’s nest yet again by conquering another bridge. Over the weekend, the young man who goes by the by the alias @icarus_nyc on Instagram, along with an accomplice, climbed […]
