BIES & DUKE, Crown Heights. (Photo: @streebs) […]
Aside from being New York’s elected officials, what do Mayor Bill de Blasio, Congressman Charles Rangel, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Public Advocate Letitia James and Councilmembers Ben Kallos, Helen Rosenthal, Andy King and Vanessa Gibson ALL have in common? None of them pay their interns, apparently. As the private sector has come under fire […]
Detroit, a city beset by serious crime, recently issued an arrest warrant for street artist Shepard Fairey. His crime? About nine pieces of paper that authorities claim he pasted up last month while he was in town painting the largest legal mural of his career. In a May interview about the 18-story undertaking, he blatantly […]
Hulu built a recreation of the comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment from the 1990s television program Seinfeld inside of Milk Studios to promote the fact that they paid almost $200 million for the rights to put it online. They apparently used up all the money in the deal, because the set started falling apart on the […]
The center track at the 145th Street subway station is becoming the most iconic gap in the MTA system. It’s been jumped across on skateboard and on BMX bike, impressive stunts that created a mystique. Another young fellow recently made the leap on foot, trying to add his own body to the legacy of filmed […]
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has been on a mission to end the anonymity of shell companies for years. On Wednesday, Vance testified before the House task force in Washington D.C. in support of passing the Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act, which would require state incorporation forms to disclose the identify of beneficial owners […]
Net art foundation Rhizome announced on Wednesday that it is accepting proposals for the second annual edition of its microgrants program. Five artists will be selected to receive $500 each to make browser-based art. “The $500 is kind of meant to buy domain names, get you a few days off work, actually have the time […]
The Observer’s Brady Dale took a virtual reality tour of The Grand at Sky View Parc, a luxury condo building in Flushing, to see if the future of condo sales involves VR. Before the building is finished, prospects can take a tour through the condo by looking at virtual reality renderings inside of the Oculus […]
At any given time, NASA has shit flying all over the place; recently, one of its orbiters beamed back images of protoplanet Ceres that has researchers bugging out. “New images of Ceres from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft provide more clues about its mysterious bright spots, and also reveal a pyramid-shaped peak towering over a relatively flat […]
New York City is in the middle of an affordable housing crisis. Rent rose 11 percent between 2005 and 2012 and continues to climb. Tens of thousands of people routinely apply for reduced-rent buildings that only have a few hundred units. And Mayor de Blasio’s aggressive plan to create 200,000 extra units of affordable housing […]
