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FAMOUS FOR NEVER on Sale

August 27, 2024 – 11:11 am

FAMOUS FOR NEVER A STORY OF FAME AND MISFORTUNE BY PETER NOLAN SMITH Rome wasn’t burnt in a day. – James Steele MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2024 In the 1970s city politicians launched countless projects to stem the tide of ‘white flight’. None of the doomed programs achieved their goals and the population of the Lower East […]

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Banksy?s Jean-Michel Basquiat

June 19, 2023 – 4:37 pm

Banksy’s Basquiat being stop and searched (2017) on show in Glasgow. Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images. All the cops working the dope streets of the lower East Side knew Jean-Michel and that he carried money with him. He was a steady source of cash and a golden goose For the 9th precinct. Unlike Michael Stewart […]

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith

July 9, 2019 – 1:40 pm

New York City teetered toward the edge of bankruptcy during America’s economic stagnation of the mid-70s. The Daily News splashed the headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD, after the president refused to bailout New York. The mayor was forced to slash every department’s budget to the bone and the city collapsed into a ruin rivaling […]

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