It’s been a few weeks since we heard about a McDonald’s brawl, but there was another one in the early morning of June 14 in front of the McDonald’s at 208 Varick Street in the West Village, and it involved a detail we’ve never heard of happening before: One of the assailants used a mason […]
As far as tattoo shops go, Williamsburg’s Saved Tattoo is about as famous as you can get. Many associate that fame with its founder, Scott Campbell, who has inked Heath Ledger, Sting and Courtney Love, among others, and is married to actress Lake Bell. But for some of the city’s top feminist writers, it’s co-owner […]
Former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly popped out of the woodwork the other day to talk shit about Mayor de Blasio on the Fox Business Channel, blaming the mayor’s directive for the police to be less aggro for the recent uptick in homicides. “A lot of the signals that’ve been given to police officers, certainly here […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube 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. Nick Thorburn is a versatile musician. He broke out with the Unicorns, a […]
One of the most tragic things about the case of Kalief Browder, the young man who committed suicide after being released from Rikers, was how preventable it was. Browder was arrested at 16, allegedly for having stolen a backpack, and waited there for a trial that took 3 years to throw out. One way to […]
Osvaldo “OJ” Jimenez, aka SLUTLUST, is the co-owner of La Petite Mort, a Lower East Side lifestyle shop that sells, among other things, vintage rap t-shirts from the ‘80s and ‘90s. On June 3rd, OJ got a weird surprise in his email inbox: a cease-and-desist from the legal team of ’90s R&B group Jodeci, a […]
Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who choked Eric Garner to death last year, has two on-duty cops parked in front of his house at all times to protect him because he received at least one death threat, the Daily News reports. In an affidavit presented in court Wednesday, Pantaleo requested that Supreme Court Judge Alice […]
Salvador, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artist TAEKS continues his bus shelter hijacking campaign in Long Island City. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
New York’s tall skyscrapers and historic buildings are crammed in city blocks, separated by streets and wide avenues where cars, trucks and bikes fly with reckless abandon. The parks are where we come to get away from all that street noise — and yet, cars pester us even in Central Park. But now, sources tell […]
