Tag: New York
A bill criminalizing “revenge porn” has been passed by the New York Senate. “Revenge porn” is a known tactic of terrible people who distribute explicit images as a form of cyber-bullying, often including the victim’s personal information. The bill criminalizes the dissemination of sexually intimate images or images of intimate parts of another person without that […]
Jose Duran, the truck driver who died yesterday after a dislodged manhole cover crashed through his windshield in the Bronx, was the 100th victim of traffic incidents, according to tallies kept by the WNYC. Their stats count half of the victims killed to be pedestrian. Five were bicyclists. It’s difficult to tell whether Mayor Bill de […]
A series of eerily serene photos of New York’s Chinatown by Franck Bohbot show another side of the usually chaotic streets. The photos evoke a cinematic calm reminiscent of a Jarmusch film. They could be the setting of potential action, but they’re silent and mysteriously tense. See the tinted glow of hotel lobbies, the fogged up […]
Now that the White House is firmly pointing at human-made climate change, we’re starting to face the reality that we’re totally screwed, coastal cities and other water-bound places in particular. The federal government is planning to allocate billions to save New York from the rising sea levels and disastrous new hurricanes, but how? The Verge has published […]
Even if you lived in New York while Louis Hardin aka Moondog was stationed on the corner of 6th Avenue and 54th Street, you might pass off the story as a typical eccentric tale of the city. But Moondog who busked and sold poetry dressed in Viking garb for 30 years, was much more than that. […]
Yesterday, Redditor thehofstetter begat a passionate thread by presenting the above map for New York transplants in Los Angeles, allegedly, putting “Manhattan,” “Brooklyn,” “Upstate,” “Poor New Jersey” and “Rich New Jersey” over various spread our areas of Los Angeles County. It’s not very helpful or accurate. Someone who grew up in LA, i_am_food, presented this much-improved map… …but […]
There are two certainties in life: New Year’s Eve will never live up to the hype and you will constantly be surrounded by people waxing nostalgic about the good old days. Unfortunately for the good old days, they weren’t all that good. No matter what era you pick in New York City’s history, it has […]
Protestors gathered earlier today at Midtown’s Clinton Park Stable to stand up for a horse named Caesar, an asthma-stricken 22-year-old whose shady carriage driver falsified records by switching hoof identification and passed him off as a healthy 12-year-old buck. About 45 people showed up, holding NYCLASS and PETA banners. “The carriage industry has four stables,” Allie Feldman, Executive Director of […]
Last year, we posted about the metal donation boxes that aren’t as charitable as one might think, with companies like Green Tree re-selling up to 97% of donated clothing for “reprocessing.” DNAinfo reports that the New York Department of Sanitation removed 57 of these illegally-installed boxes from the streets in the past nine months. While […]
There were 3,800 cyclist injuries reported by the police in 2013. Open data enthusiast Ben Wellington helpfully mapped the data. Each dot on the top right map is a (recorded) accident and the heat map on the top left reveals problem areas like Williamsburg and the entirety of the East Side of Lower Manhattan. He also reviewed the data to map […]
