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June 25, 2015 Liam Mathews

Last year, advertising agency 72andSunny asked Brooklyn-based artist and mural maker Maya Hayuk if she wanted to work on a marketing campaign for Starbucks Frappucinos. Hayuk declined. So imagine Hayuk’s surprise when she saw art that looked just like hers in Starbucks ads anyway. 72andSunny and Starbucks had gone ahead and created ads that imitated […]

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Bucky Turco

Sham, East River Esplanade. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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June 24, 2015 Aymann Ismail

More than 100 graffiti artists took over a doomed 22,000-square-foot building for a temporary group show called “Demolition Exhibition” in Jersey City. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Prachi Gupta

Lower Manhattan residents have been trying to block development in the South Street Seaport for years, and now the real estate threats have become so severe that the National Trust for Historic Preservation has actually named the area among its “11 Most Endangered Historic Places,” DNAinfo reports. The seaport, the Trust notes, is of significance […]

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Liam Mathews

Did you know there’s a street in Brooklyn named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee? Improbably enough, it’s true. It’s inside of Fort Hamilton, the National Guard and Army Reserve base located between the Verrazano Bridge and the Dyker Heights Golf Course. This fact was mostly ignored until this week, when in the aftermath of […]

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Bucky Turco

Just across the Hudson in Jersey City there’s a seemingly abandoned auto repair shop covered in graffiti art. Its entire exterior is doused with spray painted characters and letters that appear to explode off the wall in vibrant shapes and colors. And it doesn’t stop there. (Click gallery above to see every piece.) Scores of […]

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Liam Mathews

Rollie-snatching season is in full swing, player. We warned you before. Don’t let your guard down at da club, or even at the pizza place where you go for a slice after you leave da club. Some dude learned that lesson the hard way last Friday when he met a girl at an Artichoke Pizza, […]

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Liam Mathews

Over the weekend an unsuspecting fisherman in New Jersey hooked a pacu, a disgusting fish with human-looking teeth. It’s a really fucked up fish and I hate looking at it. The pacu is a South American fish that’s related to the piranha but instead of having razor-like teeth, it has blunt, humanoid teeth for chewing […]

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Keegan Stephan

A peaceful protest against the city’s decision to budget $170 million to hire 1,300 new cops resulted in at least one arrest Tuesday night — because a protester sneezed. The arrest occurred in front of Gracie Mansion around 9 PM, after demonstrators gathered at City Hall, marched to Union Square, then took the subway to […]

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Liam Mathews

Look at these mooks. The WorldStarHipHop video starts in media res, with one stupid man trying to force another man to either move over and let him sit or get up, because there’s only room for one idiot on this little bench. They’re holding the train up, because the conductor wants them to knock it […]

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