First they came for the large, sugary drinks, and I did not speak out as I am not a large, sugary drink. Then they came for the novelty lighters, and I did not speak out as I am not a novelty lighter. Then they came for the styrofoam, and I did not speak out as […]
Floyd v. City of New York, a class-action lawsuit that’s the most wide-ranging of three recent cases against the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice, begins hearing today. The suit, which centers around a Bronx medical student, challenges the constitutionality of the entire stop-and-frisk process, and alleges that officers are pressured to meet quotas, unfairly biased black and […]
Following the (possibly temporary) demise of the much-loved/hated Fung Wah bus line, regular New York-Boston commuters have been left with a void in their transportation options. Entrepreneur Joel Azumah hopes to change that with his Interstate Bus company, on which he hopes to send four coaches a day to Beantown at $20 each way, but with […]
D’Angelo, Tudor City. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This totally normal dude ♥s New York. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Per Gothamist, a band of unnamed cyclists created illegal street memorials last night, remembering the pedestrians and cyclists struck and killed by vehicle drivers who were never charged. The marked spots bring attention to crashes that required no investigation, according to the NYPD. Where applicable, the memorials include the name of the victim, the date […]
Legendary film score composer and octogenarian Ennio Morricone, who’s done the music for four Quentin Tarantino films including the Kill Bill series and Django Unchained, has kind of been talking shit about the director and says their working relationship is over. Morricone did a number of spaghetti western tracks for Django and later told his […]
Photographer Elizabeth Moran has released a series of porn movie sets sans porn stars, titled The Armory. The photos were taken in the San Francisco sex factory of Kink.com, and it’s completely devoid of boobs or dicks. This gallery is similar to photos of celebrities without celebrities in them, except in The Armory, the porn […]
Just days after buffing the Martha Cooper tribute mural before starting on his own, CRASH worked on the Bowery mural for a few days and now he’s done. See him apply the finishing touches in our photos. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Antonia Basler re-imagines her old family photos with her recent series Content Aware, using the Photoshop feature of the same name. Basler transforms the original photos into two sets: the first in which her subjects’ faces are erased entirely, and the second in which those same faces, as if they’d left their bodies behind and teleported into […]
