A photographer named Steve Butcher who has lived in the Lower East Side for more than 30 years shared a treasure trove of vintage photos of the neighborhood with Bowery Boogie. The color photos are from between 1980 and 1985, and the black-and-whites are from 1996. It’s of course old news that the Lower East […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Magda Love. Name/Alias: Magda Love. Decade you were born in: Oh the wonderful ’70s! City you currently live: Brooklyn, New York. Drugs or natural highs? Natural highs have always being very powerful for me. I have learned more […]
Hey guys, you can stop looking for the dumbest story of the week, because we found it. It’s in the New York Daily News today, and it’s about a sailor in town for Fleet Week who was refused entrance to the Top of the Standard because she was wearing her naval outfit. Pretty much everything […]
A new study by researchers at Columbia University’s School of Public Health has found that the effects of city’s polluted air are especially bad for children from low-income neighborhoods. The study, published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology, monitored 276 New York City mothers and their children over a 7-year period, starting from when the mothers were […]
While President Obama was saluting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, a group of protesters in New York sought to honor Americans who died in a very different kind of battle — victims of police brutality. Demonstrators with the Peoples Power Assemblies laid out black towels with outlines […]
In continuation of her “Gentrification in progress” series, street artist Gilf broke out her signature yellow crime scene tape and wrapped it around 190 Bowery sometime late last night. It survived the early morning, but by 10:30AM, the installation was removed and put in a trashcan. She has previously brought attention to 5Pointz and Pearl […]
Normally, community council meetings are intended to be opportunities for officers and civilians to meet face-to-face and discuss issues in the precinct, but on Wednesday May 20, the Lower East Side’s 7th Precinct hosted a special session, inviting the community to try out an NYPD firearms tactics training simulator. I was intrigued, because it seemed […]
Paper magnate, art collector and magazine publisher Peter Brant owns a landmarked building on East 6th Street in the East Village. He paid $27 million for it last year, and says he plans to use it as a gallery for his art collection. But his neighbors worry that a planned rooftop terrace, for which construction […]
Howard Phillips, Midtown Terminal – East River Ferry. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
JETSKI, Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
