The pilot of an Alitalia passenger plane was preparing to land at JFK airport yesterday when he reported seeing an unmanned aerial vehicle flying several miles away. “We saw a drone, a drone aircraft,” he said over the radio. The FAA and FBI are investigating. “He saw a small, unmanned or remote-controlled aircraft while on final […]
Behold tomorrow’s stop-and-friskers today. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Scattered amid the thousands of pictures of Michael Bloomberg speaking behind a podium, the official Flickr account of the mayor’s office contains a treasure trove of strange, hilarious, and otherwise notable images. We did the hard work so you don’t have to, scanning through 10,536 photos and picking out the the greatest hits. Spider-Berg, Spider-Berg, […]
Over 800 artists from from places as far as South Korea and New Zealand, age five to 70-something, some renowned, other less so, submitted 2,400 MetroCard-based works to “Single Fare 3.” “With the exception of a couple of pieces that showed up totally damaged, every single thing we got was hung,” exhibit organizer Jean-Pierre Roy tells […]
It’s hard to say why, but police commissioner Ray Kelly is pretty popular around these parts. So popular, in fact, that despite being the head and public face of a department that’s faced tremendous controversy over stop-and-frisk, seen several cases of police brutality and excessive force, and is considering the use of surveillance drones in […]
A major victory in the fight against the the NYPD’s discriminatory stop-and-frisk tactics was won today, as a judge ordered the department to halt a practice that allowed officers to patrol and make arrests in certain privately-owned Bronx apartment buildings. The practice, known as Operation Clean Halls, has led to several trespassing stops for residents […]
In a year of a historically terrible storm, an Empire State Building shooting, questionable practices by the police department, handsy and racist Times Square mascots, an epically polluted waterway, several exotic animals running wild, hazardously mislabeled raw fish, a disgusting monster that washed up on the shores of the East River, record arrest numbers, a ban […]
