These rat poison signs at Sumner Houses in Bed-Stuy are next level and quite possibly, art. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Critics are saying a chicken sandwich from Fuku is “worth the wait.” No disrespect to Fuku, but I disagree. I’m not an economist, so my judgement that waiting in line to buy a chicken sandwich from Fuku is a poor investment of time and resources is an amateur one. I understand supply and demand, and […]
Art world disrupter Istvan Kantor has once again found himself in the custody of the NYPD for writing the Neoist nom de guerre “Monty Cantsin” at an exhibition that was not his own. As ANIMAL previously reported, on Tuesday evening, Kantor tagged a mattress that was part of an installation at The Hole Shop by […]
Citi Bike is revamping its fleet, adding 2,400 sturdier models that were designed by Ben Serotta, the legendary frame builder whose bikes have been ridden in the Olympics. The new bikes weren’t built with racing in mind, of course, but with customizability, functionality and safety. Serotta researched the bikes by talking with bike share employees, […]
On Saturday, the prototype of the Cooper Lumen, a solar-powered wi-fi hotspot and mobile device charging station, will be set up for public demonstration on the corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark’s Place as part of the the Cooper Square Committee’s Second Ave. Festival, the Villager reports. The Cooper Lumen was devised by Paul […]
Hulu, which is all the bad parts of watching TV consolidated on a single glitchy website, spent an estimated $700 trillion dollars to buy the digital rights to Seinfeld, a comedy show that has not had a new episode since 1998 and is on television every day. It is a beloved sitcom about a cranky […]
As part of an all-female group show curated by graffiti-trained-artist CLAW, thirty-six women recently customized mini-water towers. Each artist, including CLAW, was given a blank wood-like tower by Boundless Brooklyn, a company that sells DIY models of various objects symbolizing NYC. They were then asked to portray “Whatever feminism means to you.” The scaled-down structures […]
Congratulations! If you’re reading this, then you are a survivor of the human race. Be thankful that Manhattan has not submerged, milk doesn’t cose $12.99 a carton, and gas isn’t $9 a gallon. Because, according to viewer-informed predictions from ABC, all of those things could have happened by June 12, 2015. Newsbusters flagged ABC’s amazing […]
Crystal Moselle’s fascinating documentary The Wolfpack, in theaters today, tells the story of the Angulo family, six brothers and one sister who grew up in a Lower East Side housing project but were kept in almost complete isolation by their messianic, abusive father and psychologically defeated mother. They spent much of their childhoods in almost […]
New York’s homeless are still feeling the effects of the Bloomberg-era elimination of “permanent housing resources for homeless,” finds a new report by the Coalition for Homeless. A record-high number of people used the city’s homeless shelters during the last fiscal year, up 5% from the previous year, at 116,294 people. Homelessness has reached an […]
