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LOST BY THE EIGHT BALL by Peter Nolan Smith

June 24, 2023 – 4:05 am

None of the cops from the 9th Precinct were happy about the closing of the basement bar next to their station house in the summer of 1980. Even fewer were excited by its re-opening as a French bistro. Evelyn?s Bistro was another sign that the East Village was giving way to a new crowd. Not […]

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HUNG by Peter Nolan Smith

June 13, 2023 – 9:59 am

The Village in New York had always attracted a kaleidoscope of radical, deviant, and perverse characters considered abhorrent by mainstream America. The Reds of the 40s gave way to the beatniks of the 50s, who in turn evolved into the hippies of the 60s before surrendering the shattered counterculture ghetto to the junkies, artists, punks […]

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Gem Spa Still Gone

April 18, 2023 – 10:52 am

Back East Village of the 1970s junkie prostitutes worked out of decrepit vans in the Bowery’s parking lots and Johnny Thunder pawned his guitar at the hock shops above St. Mark’s Place. The director of TAXI DRIVER filmed pre-teen Jodie Foster as a prostitute at that SRO hotel on 13th Street. Sighting William Burroughs shuffle […]

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April 12, 1981 – The Jefferson Raid – East Village – Journal Entry

April 13, 2023 – 7:05 pm

After midnight above Jefferson Theater the exquisite wickedness of Arthur Weinstein’s apartment became a home away from home for hell-bent nightlifers raced at full-tilt to utter abandonment. I ran the door and had to refuse several unlikely party-goers. Something was not right about them. They looked like cops and one couple were too friendly, offering […]

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A HERO OF THE ROAD BY PETER NOLAN SMITH — ON SALE

January 7, 2023 – 6:01 pm

A HERO OF THE ROAD By Peter Nolan Smith Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it. – Evel Knevel MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2023 In 1986 Hugh Mackie and Dmitri Turin opened the Sixth Street Specials, specializing in the repair of Triumph, Nortons, Royal Enfields, and various other English motorcycles. […]

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