ANIMALNewYork Removes Nude Ashley Dupre Playboy Photos After Playboy Threatens To "Crush" Them

Bucky Turco, New York City's "best downtown-minded internet savant" and publisher of ANIMALNewYork, has removed Playboy photos from his website that featured a very naked and nude Ashley Dupre—former part-time lover of Eliot Spitzer, one-time Governor of New York, after lawyers for Playboy threatened to "crush" Bucky and his staff.

The photos lived on briefly in Google's cache after they were removed from viewing on ANIMALNewYork; a screengrab of the photos as they appeared on ANIMAL moments before Google updated their cache of the page can be seen below, hosted on Flickr...
(Photos after the jump NOT SAFE FOR WORK)

Artist Has the City On Locks

Allan Mohlo began placing his locks project almost exclusively around Soho's streets in 2003, with one installation being placed on 22nd between 10th and 11th Ave. Utilizing padlocks as a canvas that feature photos of his children affixed to each one, they are locked to fences, poles, or other surfaces.

Read more at ANIMAL.

NYC THE BLOG ELSEWHERE

The posting has been light around here lately, and I'm unsure exactly why. But I still have a desire to spread my infinite wisdoms across the interwebs, so in the meantime, two of NYC's most beloved websites, Young Manhattanite and ANIMAL New York, are allowing my prose and photographs to grace their pages. Click thru the images to read more.