A three-story building under construction in Hell’s Kitchen partially collapsed on Wednesday afternoon. The FDNY said that the call came in at 2:37 PM. MANHATTAN | W57 ST & 11TH AVE | *BUILDING COLLAPSE | REPORT OF PPL PINNED, BUILDING UNDER DEMOLITION, NYPD K-9 ENROUTE — One Police Plaza (@1PolicePlaza) February 25, 2015 As of […]
America is tattered and torn: Our criminal justice system is totally fucked, Congress is basically anti-science and New York may be witnessing its coldest month on record. Okay, so one of those things is not like the other, but the point is this: Morale is so bad that even the flags are starting to show […]
A new study reiterates what activists, critics of our judicial system, and other researchers have been saying for years: there is a stark racial bias against black people — particularly black men — in America’s capital punishment system. While existing research supports this claim, new research by UNC professor Frank Baumgartner, PhD student Amanda Grigg […]
The ever elusive street artist Banksy continues to remain elusive. Today, the British stenciler posted an image of what appears to be new work on his new Instagram account, @banksy.co.uk, without a caption. UPDATE: the new work is in Gaza. A photo posted by @banksy.co.uk on Feb 25, 2015 at 2:26am PST His publicist Jo […]
Meet “Laura Lewis.” She’s the undercover “investigator” who was asking Eric Garner’s daughter leading questions about controversial civil rights figure Al Sharpton with a hidden camera in the latest hit-job video by rightwing propagandist James O’Keefe. The story, splashed across the front page of the New York Post on Tuesday, uses highly selective interviews with […]
A tragic scene unfolded at the family-owned Dell’s Maraschino Cherries company on Tuesday. The New York Daily News reports that owner Arthur Mondella, 57, shot and killed himself after police officers questioned him about a weed smell in the factory. They later found the pot, according to sources. Investigators had a search warrant to enter […]
The rent is too damn high in New York City, and the data confirms it. The New York Times analyzed a survey by the Census Bureau and reported that for the past three years, rent has soared at a rate higher than inflation — with no signs of slowing down. From the Times: In a […]
Al, Union Square. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A drone’s eye view of the icy Hudson River. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
While the rest of the world marches into the 21st century, the Drug Enforcement Agency — a federal law enforcement bureau that benefits the most from keeping weed illegal — continues its Reefer Madness-style propaganda campaign about weed despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary. Several days ago, the buzz-killing malcontents who run the DEA’s […]
