City Councilman Costa Constantinides, who represents Astoria and parts of Woodside, East Elmhurst and Jackson Heights, has set aside $52,500 of his $710,000 in annual discretionary funds to clean up graffiti in his district, DNAinfo reports. “Our sidewalks and buildings are windows to the neighborhood and it is important to keep them clean and graffiti-free,” […]
I spent a year working some pretty awful jobs as an undocumented immigrant in New York City, so when the New York Times published Sarah Maslin Nir’s exposé describing cases of abuse in the New York City nail industry last month, I wasn’t surprised. I was used to paying around $50 for a mani-pedi combo […]
A young fellow from Chattanooga, Tennessee named David Karnauch posted a photo to Instagram on Sunday in which he’s standing on a railing in a restricted area of the Brooklyn Bridge, between the water and the roadway. He used a selfie stick to take the photo and his free hand made some sort of vague […]
Clifton, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Street artist FAITH47 joins the L.I.S.A. Project with new mural on the Lower East Side. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In a small bit of karmic justice, two cab drivers were disciplined by the Taxi and Limousine Commission for refusing/being whiny about driving the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico from Greenwich Village to her hotel in the Bronx last month, the New York Times reports. The first driver, who drove away when Carmen Yulin […]
Some girls just wanna shred. Artist Megan Carli understands this. She’s the founder of Wearskate Jewelry, and she makes jewelry out of recycled skateboard parts. She’s using her jewelry as rewards to help fund another project, a weeklong skateboarding camp for girls ages six to 11. “By giving to this Kickstarter you are supporting women […]
In the Times Square subway station, there are mosaic tiles that, if you know what to look for, resemble Confederate flags. In a 2012 article in Civil War Times magazine, historian Dr. David J. Jackowe claimed that architect Squire J. Vickers installed the tiles as a tribute to then-New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs’ Southern […]
On Monday night, Black Lives Matter activists crashed the Bryant Park screening of 1946 film noir classic The Killers. They held up a sign mirroring the movie poster, replacing the faces of Hollywood actors with NYPD cops who have killed New Yorkers. They held a prolonged mic check, detailing the facts of each case. Minutes […]
Manhattan’s West Side, now growing, has been a real estate developer’s blue sky idea playground for many, many years. There have been all kinds of ill-fated plans for the valuable but elusive area abutting the Hudson: Bloomberg’s stadium, Robert Moses’ Westway, destruction by a psychic squid. Here’s one you maybe haven’t heard of: an airport. […]
