Shortly after 2015 became official in New York City, a dance party popped up on the Lower East Side. A bicycle rigged with a mobile sound system provided beats while three dozen or so revelers boogied and partied on Ludlow Street, literally, as the middle of the street was treated like a dance floor. In […]
An NYPD officer who has seven years on the force turned himself in on Thursday after he was accused of assaulting a female MTA worker who was on duty at a Bronx subway station. After Officer Mirjan Lolja, 37, saw himself in a surveillance video on the news, he elected to turn himself in at the 25th […]
Days after a banner reading “DE BLASIO OUR BACKS HAVE TURNED TO YOU,” ran across NYC, a second banner criticizing the mayor appeared on Wednesday afternoon. The banner read, “DE BLASIO, APOLOGIZE TO THE NYPD!!” The banner was paid for by Michael Sheehan, reports the New York Daily News, a “retired Westchester County Correction officer […]
City officials announced on Wednesday that they are moving to honor slain Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos by naming two Brooklyn streets after them. Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced their support for a bill sponsored by Council Members Mark Treyger and Rafael Espina, who represent the slain detectives’s […]
Fashion photographer Andre Perry, 32, has shot campaigns for Reebok, Brooklyn Circus and Nordstrom, but fashion caused him some problems recently when his two-finger gold ring was mistaken for brass knuckles by undercover members of the NYPD. They arrested Perry and charged him with “two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, one for having the ring […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio met with five police union heads on Tuesday afternoon in an effort to improve increasingly hostile relations between the two groups. While no press was allowed inside the conference room of the Police Academy in College Point, Queens, sources told the New York Daily News that the two and a half […]
In the midst of a very trying week, here’s a major win for Mayor Bill de Blasio: The number of pedestrian traffic deaths in the city is at its lowest point since 1910. The New York Daily News reports that as of Sunday, the city suffered 131 pedestrian traffic-related fatalities in 2014. That number is […]
Likely protesters assembled on the subway platform after the funeral for Officer Rafael Ramos this weekend. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
When a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict the officer who was videotaped choking Eric Garner, many outlets (including ANIMAL) saw it as a potential sign that body cameras on police wouldn’t make a difference in the occurrences of police brutality. Now the full contents of a police body cam study in Rialto, California have […]
Protesters gathered in East New York on Saturday to demand justice for Akai Gurley, a resident of the Pink Houses who was shot in a darkened stairwell by a rookie cop. More than 200 protesters reportedly gathered at the site of the shooting before making their way to the 75th Precinct. After arriving at the station, protestors […]
