Farrah, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Kenny Scharf creatively touched up some his work on the Lower East Side that was ragged by graffiti writers. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
After proposing rules last year, New York State’s Department of Financial Services has granted a license to bitcoin exchange itBit, allowing the company to immediately begin accepting US customers. This makes itBit the first and only U.S. licensed and regulated bitcoin exchange as a trust charter company in full compliance with New York and federal […]
Last year, the city Department of Health & Mental Hygiene began a pilot program to combat New York’s rat problem by identifying rat colonies, horrifyingly called “rat reservoirs,” and eradicating them at the source. The program has proven so successful that it’s being expanded to all 5 boroughs and getting a funding increase from $400 […]
When you want to get people to listen to what you have to say, blasting lights into their offices and homes is a great way to get their attention. As world leaders visited the UN headquarters in Manhattan for the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to discuss how to stop the spread of nuclear weapons this […]
A piece of wood fell off a Soho building and struck a woman on the head as she walked down the street Friday afternoon. The accident occurred just after 1 PM in front of 580 Broadway, the building that houses ANIMAL’s office. UPDATE: An FDNY spokesman told ANIMAL that he didn’t know what hit the […]
Two women who truly don’t give a fuck beat up a man who suggested they stop smoking weed in front of his Chelsea apartment building, DNAinfo reports. The incident happened April 29, when the man was walking his dogs in front of his West 16th Street building and noticed the two women smoking weed. DNAinfo […]
The enlightened already know that pigeons are underrated. But did you know they are were also muses for famous scientists like Darwin and B.F. Skinner? Watch Vox’s mini-documentary, above, to learn about how pigeons helped American society. […]
CityLab reports on a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that finds that New York is the world’s most resource-greedy city with a metropolitan area of more than 10 million people. The study, led by the University of Toronto’s Christopher Kennedy, looked at how 27 “megacities” consume resources and generate […]
With average height and a reed-thin frame, Vishavjit Singh is not an imposing presence, let alone a heroic one. But over the past few years, he has turned into a superhero for the South Asian community. Singh, a New Yorker who follows the Sikh faith, is America’s first turbaned Captain America. “I see things in […]
