Tag: GANGS
Puma sneakers — once a hot, kill-for commodity inside the walls of Rikers — are now so bland that they’re the only footwear allowed into the jail from the outside world. Ratter writer Justine Sharrock chronicled the 180-degree shift in attitude, and presents some theories for how it happened. In the ’80s, Pumas were the […]
In Harlem last week, NYPD officers arrested 40 people suspected to be associated with two rival gangs in the area. The arrests took place during a massive raid of two project buildings. On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, Daryl Khan, New York bureau chief of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange and a CUNY journalism professor, reported on […]
News Vines is our new reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. In this edition, ANIMAL pays tribute to the recently deceased Sopranos star. News Vines: Rest in Peace, James Gandolfini https://t.co/oTfMF8KcJ2 — ANIMALNewYork (@ANIMALNewYork) June 21, 2013 […]
A “biker” is no longer “a motorcyclist, especially one who is a member of a gang: a long-haired biker in dirty denims,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which has succumbed to criticism backed by insurance industry research and altered the definition for one of the world’s earliest countercultures as we know it. According to […]
