Everything nice has a terrible exploitative dark side: 2 Bros, the industry leader in $1 pizza, has been slapped with a class-action suit by former employees who allege that they worked 60-70 hour workweeks for less than minimum wage and no overtime, the Daily News reports. “They built their dollar pizza empire on the backs […]
It’s so popular to blame Barack Obama’s presidency for everything from the poor economy to the reason Two and a Half Men re-runs still air that it’s become a meme. But on Sunday, Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins attributed New York’s recent anti-cop sentiment on the president without a hint of irony or humor. […]
C. Gershon Co., a Manhattan property management company, is trying to evict Marianne Semiletov, a 73-year-old retired home health aide, from her rent-stabilized Upper East Side apartment by depicting her as a hoarder and a crazy cat lady, the New York Post reports. The landlord sent Semiletov an eviction notice on May 31 accusing her […]
I’ve known SABIO (Supreme Articulation Bouncing In Orbit) for over a decade and didn’t even realize it until I met him in person as SABIO. Throughout the years, I’ve seen the Clark Kent-version of him at galleries, bars and and other art events since the mid-2000s, but never had an inkling he was the city’s […]
The cronut, baker Dominique Ansel’s croissant-donut hybrid, was the biggest story in New York food in 2013. The craze here has since died down, but there are still long early morning lines at the new Dominique Ansel Bakery in Tokyo, which opened June 20. A reporter for Rocketnews24, an English-language Japanese news site, went to […]
A tacky, dumb golf course deserves a tacky, dumb clubhouse, right? That seems to be the reasoning behind the reported size increase of the clubhouse at Trump Ferry Point, Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s public golf course in the Bronx. The clubhouse’s renderings, obtained by DNAinfo, show that the soon-to-be-built clubhouse’s square footage has been upped […]
“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. Kitty, nee Kitty Pryde, used to live in Florida and be a rapper. Now she […]
Researchers at the McGill School of Urban Planning have found that homes close to a city bike-share station saw increased property values in Montreal. According to lead author and university professor Ahmed El-Geneidy, the finding has implications for other cities with bike share programs, like New York. “We expect studies on other cities will also […]
Due to ongoing repair work, the A and C trains will be rerouted over the F line between Jay Street-Metrotech and West 4th Street for 40 nonconsecutive weekends over the next 16 months, the Daily News reports. Guhhhhhhh. The Cranberry Tube, the tunnel under the East River that carries the A and C trains, was […]
Theodore, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
