In the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, a wooded land somewhere between New York City and Philadelphia, scientists confirmed the existence of a previously undiscovered species of leafhopper, a type of colorful sap-eating bug that lives in a threatened grass called pinebarren smokegrass, EurekAlert reports. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys, was led […]
Luxury building developer Bauhouse Group has performed some New York-style black magic on the residents of Sutton Place, allegedly tricking them into allowing the building of a 90-story luxury high rise in the Upper East Side neighborhood. According to the Daily News, the residents signed away air rights and zoning for what they expected to […]
A group of disgusted witnesses is suing four rabbis, several Hasidic congregations, and New York City in order to stop an annual religious ritual that features gruesome, highly public slaughtering of chickens, the Daily News reports. The ritual, called Kaporos, occurs in the 10 days before Yom Kippur. A person’s sins are transferred into the […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Rob Plater aka TMO. Name/Alias: Rob Plater or TMO. Decade you were born in: I was born in 1988. City you currently live: Queens, New York. Drugs or natural highs? For a while, one of my biggest highs […]
If you see someone zipping around New York City on a Citi Bike, disobeying traffic laws and running red lights without a helmet, chances are that someone is male. That’s because Citi Bike users are overwhelmingly male, reports the New York Times, noting that “women take about a quarter of all trips by Citi Bike […]
Kaylee Dedrick — one of the protestors egregiously pepper sprayed by Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna during a 2011 demonstration — has settled with the city for $55,000, her attorney Ronald Kuby told AMNY on Monday. Dedrick was standing behind a barricade when Tony Baloney walked up and doused her and her fellow protestors with pepper […]
Thiago, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s what the Macy’s fireworks (and some illegal local ones), looked like from Morningside Heights at 110th and Broadway, a great staging ground for NYC photography. (Photo: Scott Matthews) […]
The New York City Department of City Planning has recommended that parking requirements be eliminated for affordable and senior housing at locations within a half-mile of a subway station. Affordable housing is more important than parking, especially for people who live in affordable housing and don’t have a car, which is a majority. According to […]
According to a new poll, nearly 70% of people said that driving stoned is “not much of a problem,” which is true. The recent Gallup survey “didn’t ask Americans to estimate the severity of impairment each substance produces, but to say more broadly how much drivers’ use of each substance affects traffic safety.” The four […]
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