Anarchists In the NewsMay 30, 2017<May 31, 2017 99% Invisible, “Squatters of the Lower East Side” by Agency These evictions provoked the biggest showdown yet between the city and the squatters. On May 30, 1995, the city sent a small battalion of…
Anarchists In the NewsMay 16, 2017<May 18, 2017 Bedford + Bowery, “50 Years Ago: The Summer of Love Brings Pot, Protests and Psychedelic Rock to the East Village” by Agency “Since I had worked on an upstart alternative newspaper at Queens College, I gravitated to the offices of the East Village Other (EVO) where…
Anarchists In the NewsMarch 22, 2017<March 25, 2017 The Cut (NY Mag), “Why Manic Panic Is Still Cool” by Agency The punk scene was in full swing and the East Village was inarguably at the heart of it. Record stores and clubs sprouted from…
Anarchists In the NewsJanuary 12, 2017<January 13, 2017 San Francisco Chronicle, “Lower East Side reaching higher as destination” by Agency If you want a sense of Bluestockings Books, let’s just say it has an uncommon number of volumes by Noam Chomsky. Also, there are…
Anarchists In the NewsJanuary 2, 2017<January 9, 2017 Bedford and Bowery, “From Anarchist Hangout to Bathhouse to Arcade: The Steamy History of 6 St. Marks” by Agency On 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…