New York
Meet the New York doctor who's removing tattoos for free to help change lives
Dr Dave — Dr David Ores loves his body art just as much as he loves his Harley. And yet, the New York doctor is on a quest to change lives by removing bad tattoos.
Written by: Alfred Rinaldi
Legendary New York club CBGB to be reborn as an airport restaurant
From Lou Reed to a $14 cheeseburger — In depressing news that might put you off travelling, off restaurants, and even further off rampant commercialisation of cultural icons, the sorely-missed CBGB is coming back as a themed diner at Newark Airport.
Written by: Adam White
In Pictures: Surfing in snow on the East Coast
Ryan Struck: Cold-Water Crew — Brooklyn-based photographer Ryan Struck has been braving the wintertime waters of the Atlantic to capture the hardy surf crew there in full frozen mode.
Written by: Shelley Jones
Video: A hundred stops on the New York subway in just two minutes
Watch it on your way to work — Stations is a two-minute short chronicling the wonder of the New York commute.
Written by: Adam White
Clayton Patterson’s battle to save NYC’s alternative culture
Last days on the Lower East Side — The rebel photographer on how New York City lost its way.
Written by: Alex King
Clayton Patterson raises the ghosts of the Lower East Side’s anarchic past
Outlaw art — Patterson’s Outside In retrospective at Howl Arts bridges back to the grassroots creativity of pre-gentrification NYC.
Written by: Alex King
Join the 33,000 artists in the mammoth Sketchbook Project
Crowdfunded, open source art — The Sketchbook Project is an open-submission collection of work from 33,000 artists, housed at the Brooklyn Art Library. Fill in a sketchbook and take part in one of the largest public art projects in the world.
Written by: George Kafka
Step into the world's smallest museum
Prison tattoo guns, Fake IDs and bullet-proof backpacks — New York City’s Mmuseumm helps visitors make sense of the madness of modern society through its curated selection of cultural ephemera.
Written by: HUCK HQ
Are New York’s eccentric street characters being pushed out?
Save NYC street culture — Filmmaker Nicolas Heller’s No Your City web series celebrates the city’s larger than life characters, who are being threatened by ongoing gentrification of the Big Apple.
Written by: Alex King
New Yorkers are fighting to save the soul of their city
Stop NYC eating its children — Gentrification is suffocating New York’s creative culture. We spoke to #SaveNYC campaign founder Jeremiah Moss to find out why it’s time to fight back.
Written by: Alex King
