A one-bedroom place costs, on average, $4,450 a month to rent in Tribeca. That’s about $1,000 more a month than the same place in Soho, and $2,000 more per month than it would in the neighboring Lower East Side. Those numbers are according to real estate site Zumper (via Business Insider), which has ranked the […]
Stray cats have a rough time, especially during “kitten season,” when cats breed and cat shelters fill up with hundreds of homeless kittens that they then have to try to find homes for. Being a stray cat sucks, but it’s even harder to run a cat shelter. DNAinfo talked to a number of cat shelter […]
Scores of urban artists from across several generations took part in Ad Hoc Art’s 6th Annual Welling Court Mural Project this weekend. Located in Astoria, Queens, the walls stretch for blocks and feature a diverse array of talent, such as Abe Lincoln, Jr., AM, Bishop203, Chris RWK, Chris Stain, Col Wallnuts, Dan Witz, Ellis Gallagher, […]
A three-judge panel will convene in Brooklyn today to hear arguments appealing to unseal the grand jury verdict that failed to charge Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner last year, NY1 reports. On March 19, Staten Island judge William E. Garnett determined that there was no “compelling” reason to unseal the records. […]
Feminist icon and women’s right activist Gloria Steinem will be hosting a night of “revolutionary laughter” that honors black women in comedy on Tuesday evening. The event is part of the “Sisters of Comedy” series, pegged as the only “all black women showcase at a top comedy club in NYC,” according to founder Agunda Okeyo […]
Environmentalists have been battling with the gypsy moth ever since the French brought the insect to America in 1869. WNYC reports that this season, the pests have become a particular nuisance near West Point, putting the trees east of the Hudson River “at risk of defoliation.” Oak trees reportedly are at the highest risk: “They […]
A group of urban artists is suing Jerry Wolkoff, the owner and developer of the lot in Queens that was once 5Pointz and is now a construction site where two apartment towers are being built, for whitewashing their work without giving them enough time to retrieve it, the Daily News reports. The artists are claiming […]
Jalissa, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artists painted tributes to Puerto Rican heritage that stretched around the block in Brooklyn. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Over the past 44 years, Eric Edwards has acquired over 2,500 pieces of art from every country in Africa, dating back 4,000 years. Now, he wants to give what he touts as “one of the largest African artifacts collections in the United States” a permanent home in the Cultural Museum of African Art. Edwards is […]
