new york city

http://nypost.com/2015/07/30/bums-set-up-camp-outside-nyc-college/ The NY Post is clearly a quality publication of considerable repute: The glass facade of Cooper Union’s $111 million academic building offers a remarkable view — of a back alley packed with vagrants. “I have seen drug deals...

Has anyone encountered the Smoking Nazies AKA the Good old NYPD can any one verify that you can in actuality be tickted for smoking tobacoo in public places sidewalks beaches time square .

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/doctors-used-homeless-medicaid-fraud-scheme NYC Doctors Allegedly Used Free Shoes to Lure Homeless Into Medicaid Fraud Prosecutors charge that patients underwent days of unnecessary testing. —By Bryan Schatz | Wed Apr. 1, 2015 4:20 PM EDT Jim...

http://www.6sqft.com/photo-series-captures-three-years-of-nyc-subway-cars-being-dumped-in-the-atlantic-ocean/ Photo Series Captures Three Years of NYC Subway Cars Being Dumped in the Atlantic Ocean POSTED ON TUE, JANUARY 20, 2015BY DANA SCHULZIN ART, TRANSPORTATION Who knew that the graveyard...

Take the Long Island Rail to the end of the line at Montauk and then hike a mile or so east to Camp Hero. It's an abandoned military base with innumerable abandoned buildings, dense underbrush, and serene beaches, if you like beach camping. There are plenty of jobs in Montauk, and for more...

Anybody in NYC know ways of getting food, or good places to panhandle/dumpster? I'm living here in a shitty apartment with no electricity trying to scrape by, not doing so well. Advice?

A shout out to this guy at the 2013 NYC anarchist bookfair/film festival. More specifically the film festival. The guy had his face completely tatoo, their was a discussion on a film about what should be done about furthering technology, their was alot of talk about using tech in "sustainable"...

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/21/nypd-looking-into-arrest-of-subway-performer-in-williamsburg-after-video-goes-viral/ NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Fellow musicians are rallying around a subway performer whose arrest in a busy Brooklyn station was captured on video as straphangers jeered...

Ok i changed the thread title. Lets fight gentrification. In san fran there 100's of street kids in the haight, a highly gentrified neighborhood just squatting there for years. Theyre homebums that are successful on taking the neighborhood. So instead of the seasonal thing on the lower eastside...

hey i'm Corinne, i'm 23 and im currently located in new york city. i've been living in a van for 2 years and i currently live alone in a 97 nissan quest minivan. im definitely no stranger to dumpstering or busking and i found this forum from researching ideas on making money on the road. i plan...

Worth checking out. Grabbed some new reading material. Interesting workshops happening all day. After party later tonight. DM if anyone is in the city and wants to hang! Book fair till 9pm: Judson memorial church 55 washing square south. http://anarchistbookfair.net

Disgruntled native new yorker over here completely fed up with this constant plague of gentrifying neighborhoods left and right.. to see a city change so much before your eyes in only the 24 years of life you've stayed in new york. Totally sick of all the disgusting greed that goes into real...

http://grist.org/list/russia-could-build-a-train-that-would-connect-new-york-to-paris/ Has anyone heard anything about this? I just saw it today..

Hey i've been staying in Morristown NJ for the past 2 weeks doing the whole trying to find a job thing but gotta move out of my mom's place (roommate coming in, she needs the income). I was wondering what the travelers (if any) out there do in the middle of winter. may have to hang out at the...

Curious of imformation of the kind mentioned above , I think we all are quite familiar with the difficulty sometimes faced by those trying to squat here - im currently trying to figure out somewhere to be , and besides the ever looming "park" option i wanna know if anyone knows somewhere chill...

Hello everyone ,here researching , have plans for Philly somewhere on the horizen , just happy to find some free spirited folk and share info with , lookin to meet some peope round the NYC area so i won't have to explore this city alone as I love to wander .

so one of the last times i was in nyc this guy told me of an area where traveler kids go to get picked up by hot housie chicks. i wanna see how well this goes, but i cant remember the area of nyc that its in for the life of me. anybody know where im talkin about?

Anyone know good spots in nyc that will trade cash? I will be out there on Tuesday after getting back from Europe, and I will be broke as hell!

i've been lurking the forums for a while, finally decided to make an account. i'm a new yorker interested in the culture and traveling lifestyle. hoping to use this site to connect with some creative people like buskers, artists or crafters. not really sure what to say, but i like hitchhiking...

Who's gonna be around for this? My band Rail Yard Ghosts is playing the Underground Riot! Stage at 11am archive.org/details/rygTU63 for tunes