Category Archives: East Village

May 30, 1978 – East Village – Journal

May 30, 2024 – 5:55 pm

Alice is very disturbed the progress of her senior project THE GENTLEMEN FROM VERONA at EST. She hates everyone. Mostly herself. She started on me, as we walked away from CBGBs. She had once more been made to pay. I never did. I had wanted to stay to see Patti Smith, but Alice was still […]

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May 24, 1978 – Kiev Diner – Journal

May 25, 2024 – 9:58 am

Alice woke up screaming. She had been trapped in a cerebral remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. She shuddered in my arms. Poor darling. THE KIEV DINER A Ukrainian diner Sitting with Clover Only sixteen A friend. Punk customers After CBGBs 4:28 AM Mindless No one caring about the mindlessness Rejects from destiny Cups of […]

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Angry White People – 2011

May 11, 2024 – 10:05 am

When I moved in the East Village with my hillbilly girlfriend in 1977, I never walked down East 10th Street between 1st Avenue and Second Avenue. I told my girlfriend to not do the same. She obeyed my edict, because it was the right thing to do and she was from West Virginia. No one […]

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Guns On Avenue C – 1986

May 10, 2024 – 9:50 am

In the 1970s I always said that the East Village looked like Rome three days after the sack of the Visigoths 410 CE. Buildings burned day and night. The overstretched 9th precinct triaged the streets beyond 1st Avenue. No patrols ventured farther than Tompkins Square Park. Shooting galleries outnumbered bodegas and hordes of thieves fearlessly […]

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May 8, 1978 – Journal Entry

May 8, 2024 – 10:00 am

This morning I stuffed myself with garbage food. I have a little money in my pocket, so I’m making up for lost time when I was broke. After paying off my prodigal debts, I have $150 in my pocket, almost a month’s rent at the SRO, but there’s no guarantee of more money in the […]

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