One of the benefits of living in space is that you get to take great photos. NASA’s Scott Kelly snapped a stunning aerial shot over the weekend detailing parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and New Jersey. “Just flew over #NYC,” wrote the astronaut on Twitter. “One of my favorite places on Earth and yes, we have […]
Hours ahead of her announcement for presidential candidacy on Sunday, street art about Hillary Clinton’s campaign cropped up in Brooklyn Saturday night, reported The Weekly Standard. Clinton recently opened her campaign’s headquarters in Brooklyn. The art was well organized, mounted with hooks at impressive heights, including in-line with a traffic light. The posters read “Don’t […]
A cabbie with zero chill was ordered by a judge at the city’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings to pay $10,000 to a lesbian couple he told to stop kissing or get out of his cab, DNAInfo reports. The suit claimed that Mohammed Dahbi discriminated against Kassie Thornton and Christina Spitzer on September 18th, […]
Diablo, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Urban artist ZESO served up the New York Moore Hostel with a tasty mural in Brooklyn. […]
Chimpanzees don’t want to be surveilled. A primate in a Dutch zoo saw a drone flying through its habitat and was like “fuck outta here” and took it out with a mighty hit from a big branch. Then it went down to the ground and took an ape selfie. I bet this brilliant chimp leads […]
Neapolitan Express is a pizzeria that opened on Wednesday in the Trump Building (of course) on Wall Street (double of course). In addition to acceptable pizzas in the $8-16 range, Neapolitan Express also has a $50 black truffle-covered personal pizza, which is disrespectful to the concept of pizza and shouldn’t be allowed. I do not […]
Ramsey Orta, the 23-year-old Staten Island man who recorded video of the takedown of Eric Garner that led to demonstrations for justice in New York and elsewhere, has been locked up at Rikers Island since February on drug charges unrelated to the Garner incident. He was also arrested for gun possession in August. A GoFundMe […]
At a time when scrutiny toward police brutality and wrongdoing has reached an all time high, with new incidents popping up daily, the NYPD recently decided to get back in on the action. In a video uploaded to Facebook/YouTube by Diane Malikah Moomin Pinkston, a group of plainclothes officers can be seen forcing their way […]
Like other crimes, the laws against graffiti vary from state to state and from country to country. There are many places such as Bogota, Colombia where the fine is relatively minor and then there are others, like Singapore, that will get straight up medieval on someone’s ass should they get caught tagging. The makers of […]
