Category: Takeover
Punk band Fake Hooker’s guerilla marketing game in Williamsburg is on point, although HOOKER might disagree. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A few weeks back, ANIMAL received an email from an account belonging to 5WPR’s semi-insane CEO Ronn Torossian. The subject read: “The DJ of The Kremlin Visiting NY – Plays for Putin, Medeved, Prokhorov & others… Interested in interviewing the DJ to the Oligarchs?” We replied yes, because why not? One of Torossian’s underlings responded […]
Himanshu “Heems” Suri, who goes by moniker Deepak Choppa these days, is celebrating his first solo album since his rap group Das Racist disbanded in 2012. He kicked things off with an exhibit at New York’s Aicon Gallery titled “Eat Pray Thug” after Suri’s upcoming album of the same name. The show, which opened on […]
Smart Crew’s SNOEMAN added some graffiti flair to the famed Essex Street Snowman by tagging it with his signature SM throw-up this past weekend. For the past few years, after it snows, the owners of the small Chinese grocery at the corner of Essex and Canal Streets have been building the urban Frosty to the […]
Julio, East New York. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
CASH RFC, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The same week that Oxygen debuted a terrible street art show, Vogue published a feature online about graffiti…or something. It’s so fucking fluffy I don’t even know where to start. While some might appreciate the mainstreaming of urban art, the House of Anna Wintour is the last place I’d expect or want to see it […]
A fascinating new study by geneticists at Weill Cornell Medical College has mapped the genetic material found in 466 of New York City’s subway stations. This is the first study ever to offer a comprehensive look at the microbiome of a sprawling metropolis — one that supports 5.5 million commuters a day on average — […]
SMELLER, Clinton hill. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The NYPD does not want an apology. It has, instead, set its sights on a much bigger concession. A prize that gives the NYPD what it loves best: totalitarian power and felony arrest statistics. The nation’s largest police force now wants the mayor and our representatives in Albany to get down on their knees, beg […]
