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Calhoun, Ada.
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Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York.
Alternative lifestyles -- New York (State) -- New York.
Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
East Village (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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Calhoun, Ada.
Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York.
Alternative lifestyles -- New York (State) -- New York.
Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
East Village (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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St
.
Marks
is
dead
: the
many
lives
of
America
's
hippest
street
/ Ada Calhoun.
by
Calhoun, Ada.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Call #:
974.71 C152s
Subjects
Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York.
Alternative lifestyles -- New York (State) -- New York.
Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
East Village (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780393240382 (hc.)
039324038X (hc.)
Edition:
First Edition.
Description:
xvii, 414 pages : illustrations, map
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- "A very eden," -- "Three blocks of unusual," 1905/1950 -- "They all ended up on that blanket on the corner," 1951/1974 -- "It was like if you turned the lights on and all the roaches ran," 1977/1991 -- "The era of fear has had a long enough reign," 1992/1999 -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"Three hallowed Manhattan blocks -- the epicenter of American cool.
St
.
Marks
Place in Manhattan'
s
East Village in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the
street
's apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the
many
layered history of the
street
-- from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant’s pear orchard to today’s hipster playground -- organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared "
St
.
Marks
is
dead
." In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images,
St
.
Marks
native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys"--Provided by publisher.
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