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’Net pioneer needs help in fight for rights to .nyc
Paul Garrin in front of P.S. 20, at Essex and Stanton Sts. Photo by Clayton Patterson BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | I first heard of Paul Garrin after the 1988 Tompkins Square police riot. We both...
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From the Wall to the Hall
Photos by Clayton Patterson From the Wall to the Hall Back in the days before digital photography, Lower East Side youth used to flock from far and wide to have their photos taken in front of...
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No masking it: Loisaida Fest was well worth crowing about
BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | Since 1987, the Loisaida Festival has been celebrated on the Sunday before Memorial Day. This year’s installment saw many vendors, including the woman painting a mask, above...
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From ComFest and Columbus to Soho Zat and back again
Performers and crowd members at ComFest 2012 in Goodale Park in Columbus, Ohio. Photos by Clayton Patterson BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | It was an honor for me to get invited back to ComFest. In 1987,...
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Let’s get back to our roots: We need new leaders
BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | The Lower East Side used to be a place that sheltered, developed and nurtured great political leaders. These were politicians whose ideas changed the world and made a...
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Take a bite out of gentrification, eat at El Sombrero
Photo by Clayton PattersonAt El Sombrero, from left, Chico — the husband of Josephina Diaz, who co-owns the restaurant with her brother, Palmerio Fabian — Chico’s niece Stephane Fabian and Regina...
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Defending their homes on E. 13th St.; Homeless on A
It was an early summer morning in 1996, and hundreds of police were getting ready to flood onto E. 13th St. between Avenues A and B, above, to evict squatters from several tenements. “We were welded...
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Our artists are our cultural treasures; They need help!
Photos by Clayton Patterson Taylor Mead has returned to his Ludlow St. top-floor apartment after a hospital visit, but he has difficulty going up and down the stairs. BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | On March 7...
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Things change: If not Soho House, what will we get?
Clayton Patterson. BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | In 1998 when Captain Cooper of the Seventh Precinct was asked about the explosion of quality-of-life types of crime in my area of the Lower East Side,...
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We need vision, not people hiding behind computers
Ludlow St. in 1990. Today, the ultra-exclusive Soho House is planning to open up a new club on the block. Photo by Clayton Patterson BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | I appreciate the debate going on around...
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Artist struggles to survive amid life on the street
Anthony Rodriguez with some of his artwork in his current exhibition at the Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum. BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | One of the greatest blessings I have received in life is...
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Artist struggles to survive amid life on the street
Anthony Rodriguez with some of his artwork in his current exhibition at the Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum. BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | One of the greatest blessings I have received in life is...
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Wild times in Austria
BY CLAYTON PETTERSON | The recent Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe tour in Austria featured acts like the heavily tattooed Zombie Boy — who appeared in a Lady Gaga video, as well on as a German modeling show...
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Honoring L.E.S. avant-garde with first annual Acker Awards
BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | As the tide of gentrification and the money it brings in its wake continues to wash away the creative culture that made the Lower East Side a world-renowned artistic center, I...
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Spurred by C.B. 3 snub, Latinos launch a new group
Lower East Side Hispanic business owners and residents recently gathered in the Marta Valle High School yard for the kickoff event of the new Association of Latino Business Owners & Residents....
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Anyone care about cameras?
The 7D camera sent back from the Canon repair center — with the battery door still off. BY CLAYTON PETTERSON | It seems traditional photography is going the way of the horse and buggy. Eastman Kodak...
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Ray just keeps on rolling
Photo by Clayton Patterson How time flies — and cigarette prices rise — when you’re serving up delicious fries. Ray a.k.a. Asghar Ghahraman, above in 1992, recently marked the 40th anniversary of...
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Punk music and poetry at park riot reunion concert
Photos by Clayton Patterson At the 25th Anniversary Riot Reunion Show at Tompkins Square Park last Sunday, Reagan Youth’s lead singer got down in the mosh pit and tore it up with the crusties, left,...
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Don’t take a short-term view of a long-term problem
Photo by Clayton Patterson Closing night at Max Fish on Ludlow St. at the end of last month. BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | “The latest from LES Dwellers (@LESdwellers). Our mission is to restore community...
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Actors, artists, activists, all in the mix on L.E.S.
Photos by Clayton Patterson BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | Tom Corn, artist and musician, left, and Grady Alexis, an artist from Haiti, hanging out at Bullet Space squat on E. Third St. in the early 1990s....
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