St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street PDF
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2 Valencia Hotel, Five Spot, Late Show, St. Mark’s Hotel, GG Allin 4 Alexander Hamilton, Jr., Bridge Theater, The Fugs’s “Night of Napalm,” Trash and Vaudeville 5 Khadejha Designs, Gringo mural 6 James Fenimore Cooper, The Modern School, St. Mark’s Baths, Mondo Kim’s 7 Blind Tom, Carl Solomon, Kristina Gorby 8 Madame Van Buskirk, Juliet Corson’s New York Cooking School, La Trinacria 12 German Shooting Society, © Café, St. Mark’s Bookshop 15 Paul McGregor’s salon, BoyBar, Coney Island High 16 Royal Unisex Hair Style 19–23 Arlington Hall, Polish National Home, The Dom, The Electric Circus, All-Craft 24 Limbo, 30 The Yippies 33 Slave trader, Mr. Zero’s Tub, Manic Panic 34 East Side Books 57 Club 57 60 Joan Mitchell 77 Leon Trotsky, W. H. Auden, La Palapa 79 Holiday Cocktail Lounge 80 Scheib’s Place, Jazz Gallery, Theatre 80 93 William J. Urchs, Little Missionary Day Nursery 96–98 Led Zeppelin album cover 101 Ted Berrigan 108 Ted Joans’s Gallerie Fantastique Dedicated to my parents, who looked at the apocalyptic 1970s East Village and thought, What a great place to raise a kid. The author and her mother, Brooke Alderson. St. Marks Place and First Avenue, 1976. Photo by her father, Peter Schjeldahl. CONTENTS Introduction PART I. “A VERY EDEN” 10,000 BC–AD 1904 1. Peter Stuyvesant’s Farm 2. Peter Cooper’s Utopia 3. Klein Deutschland PART II. “THREE BLOCKS OF UNUSUAL” 1905–1950 4. “Hail Marx” Place 5. Underground Tunnels 6. A Runaway Girl and a Runaway Church 7. The Cosmic Thrill 8. Mr. Zero Saves the World PART III. “THEY ALL ENDED UP ON THAT BLANKET ON THE CORNER.” 1951–1974 9. The Night People 10. The Beats Shall Inherit the Earth 11. Vaseline and Castanets 12. The New Religion 13. The Slum Gods and Goddesses of the Lower East Side 14. Hippie Heaven 15. The Exploding Plastic Inevitable 16. A Tree Stops Traffic 17. Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers PART IV. “IT WAS LIKE IF YOU TURNED THE LIGHTS ON AND ALL THE ROACHES RAN.” 1977–1991 18. Stupid on Purpose 19. Rain-Wet Asphalt Heat 20. One Big Invitational 21. The Parable of Arnie and Fritz 22. The All-Craft Center 23. The Bottle Brigade PART V. “THE ERA OF FEAR HAS HAD A LONG ENOUGH REIGN.” 1992–1999 24. The Living Museum 25. Harold Hunter Owns the Cube 26. “I Was a Quality of Life Violation” EPILOGUE. “HOLD MY HAND. SQUEEZE REAL TIGHT.” 2000–2015 i. Little Tokyo ii. The Nostalgics iii. The Church and the Religion St. Marks Place in Popular Culture Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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