99% Invisible, “Squatters of the Lower East Side”
byThese evictions provoked the biggest showdown yet between the city and the squatters. On May 30, 1995, the city sent a small battalion of…
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Bedford + Bowery, “50 Years Ago: The Summer of Love Brings Pot, Protests and Psychedelic Rock to the East Village”
by“Since I had worked on an upstart alternative newspaper at Queens College, I gravitated to the offices of the East Village Other (EVO) where…
The Cut (NY Mag), “Why Manic Panic Is Still Cool”
byThe punk scene was in full swing and the East Village was inarguably at the heart of it. Record stores and clubs sprouted from…
San Francisco Chronicle, “Lower East Side reaching higher as destination”
byIf you want a sense of Bluestockings Books, let’s just say it has an uncommon number of volumes by Noam Chomsky. Also, there are…
Bedford and Bowery, “From Anarchist Hangout to Bathhouse to Arcade: The Steamy History of 6 St. Marks”
byOn a chilly Thursday evening–January 5, 1911 to be exact–a mass of New York’s anarchists, socialists, and radicals were celebrating just 3 blocks north…