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 […]
Susannah Mushatt Jones was born on July 6th, 1899 in Alabama, and she’s still alive and living in a nursing home in East New York. Guinness World Records bestowed her the title of World’s Oldest Person on June 17, and is one of just two people remaining on Earth confirmed to have been born in […]
Hook & Ladder 8, the New York City firehouse made famous by ’80s cult classic Ghostbusters, recently added another ghost-themed crest on the sidewalk in front of its iconic building. According to a cagey firefighter inside the soon-to-be-renovated station in Tribeca, the ectoplasmic work (pictured above) was done by a fellow FDNY member of the […]
Russian scientists at the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution have determined that mice that are exposed to cat urine in infancy do not avoid the smell later in life, and therefore get eaten by their feline predators, EurekAlert reports. “Because the young mice (less than two weeks old) are being fed milk […]
NYonAir, the city’s sky taxi for photographers, did some laps around Manhattan on July 4th to document Macy’s annual fireworks show. The footage was edited to create a dazzling hyperlapse video of the pyrotechnics display like you’ve never seen before. […]
“Listen In” is a feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length 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. With the release of her fourth album, Illusion of You, New York-based artist and musician […]
Airbnb, the controversial short-term property rental company, has about 25,000 listings in New York City, and about 14,000 of those are technically illegal. Affordable housing advocates accuse the company of exacerbating the housing crisis by turning apartments that could be used for New York City residents into expensive hotels. On top of that, a new […]
New York City is host to a unique ecosystem of native and introduced species. While woodland species are confined to the city’s parks, there are a few exceptions that seem to thrive in our urban landscape. See who runs shit in the concrete jungle with this list of the most successful birds and their rankings, […]
Attorney Elinor Sutton, who is leading a class action suit against the city seeking restitution for the hundreds of thousands of unnecessary summonses issued by the NYPD in order to meet unlawfully imposed quotas, accuses the NYPD of systematically destroying evidence that relates to summonses in documents filed last week, the Daily News reports. Attorneys […]
Paul, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
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