Tag Archives: east village

Whence Comes the Storm

September 19, 2016 – 9:36 am

In 1978 I lived on East 10th Street with my girlfriend, a hillbilly from West Virginia. Our apartment was on the 3rd floor. The bedroom was situated on the airshaft. An actor friend lived with his girlfriend two flights up from us. Every night the building shivered with the screams of a woman in orgasm. […]

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CRACK ISLAND by Peter Nolan Smith

July 7, 2016 – 12:42 pm

Crack cocaine swept across the Lower East Side in the summer of 1986 and East 11th Street between Avenue B and C on the Lower East Side of New York was the destination of choice for its many adherents. All day long hundreds of crack zombies lined the sidewalk before the tenement building on the […]

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May 29 1966 Velvet Underground/Mothers Filmore West

May 29, 2016 – 10:50 pm

May 29 1966 was my 14th birthday. A few days later I graduated from the 8th Grade of a Catholic grammar school south of Boston. I was no hippie. I wouldn’t hear the Velvet Underground until 1968. ROCK AND ROLL on the radio. I never saw the group play. To hear ROCK AND ROLL, please […]

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St. Mark’s Place East Village 1968

April 16, 2016 – 6:30 am

Even the best of times have their bests But 1968 wasn’t all fun and games for the hippies of the East Village. There were no luxury condos then.

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The Balance of Excess

April 13, 2016 – 6:07 pm

Back in the late 80s Gold Gyms opened a place on Lafayette Street in the East Village. I hadn’t thought anyone would go in such a counter-culture neighborhood, but within three days the place was packed by punks, artists, dancers, bankers et al. “I played basketball. Street. Gyms were my thing. Each to his own, […]

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