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Isn't this just the best image of the Rich/Poor Class War in US?
twitpic.com/6mk84mIsn't this just the best image of the Rich/Poor Class War in US?... more
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"In the East Village middle school kids have been making bird houses as part of their school projects. The neighbors started complaining when they discovered rats were getting into the birds house to eat the food. I say to hell with the birds, this is New York City. Have a little respect for the rats."
video by Ethan H. Minsker"In the East Village middle school kids have been making bird houses as part of... more
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Unsung Indie from 1993 - East Village, from their posthumously released Drop Out lp from 1993.Unsung Indie from 1993 - East Village, from their posthumously released Drop Out lp... more
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Photo: From left, Max Florin, Fannie Rosen, Dora Evans and Josephine Cammarata were among the final six unidentified victims of the Triangle Waist Company factory fire of 1911, which killed 146 and influenced building codes, labor laws and politics in the years that followed.
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The New York Times
February 20, 2011
100 Years Later, the Roll of the Dead in a Factory Fire Is Complete
By JOSEPH BERGER
PART ONE…
In the Cemetery of the Evergreens on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, there is a haunting stone monument to the garment workers who died in the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 but were never identified. It contains the bas-relief figure of a kneeling woman, her head bowed, seemingly mourning not only the deaths, but also the fact that those buried below were so badly charred that relatives could not recognize them.
Almost a century after the fire, the five women and one man, all buried in coffins under the Evergreens monument, remained unknown to the public at large, though relatives and descendants knew that a loved one had never returned from the burning blouse factory.
Now those six have been identified, largely through the persistence of a researcher, Michael Hirsch, who became obsessed with learning all he could about the victims after he discovered that one of those killed, Lizzie Adler, a 24-year-old greenhorn from Romania, had lived on his block in the East Village.
And so, for the first time, at the centennial commemoration of the fire on March 25 outside the building in Greenwich Village where the Triangle Waist Company occupied the eighth, ninth and 10th floors, the names of all 146 dead will finally be read.
The fire was a wrenching event in New York’s history, one that had a profound influence on building codes, labor laws, politics and the beginning of the New Deal two decades later.
Among the most anguishing aspects was the memory of the more than 50 young immigrant women and men who were forced to leap from the high floors to escape the inferno. However, many of the 146 victims — 129 women and 17 men — burned to death in the loft building, at Washington Place and Greene Street, and had no telltale jewelry or clothing to help identify them.
The day the six unidentified victims were buried was the culmination of the city’s outpouring of grief; hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers turned out in a driving rain for a symbolic funeral procession sponsored by labor unions and other organizations, while hundreds of thousands more watched from the sidewalks.
A century later, names and even circumstances have finally been attached to those “unknowns.”
“We consider his list to be the best ever produced on the question,” said Curtis Lyons, director of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University, which holds one of the most thorough repositories about the Triangle fire.
Workers United, the garment workers’ union, and David Von Drehle, who wrote “Triangle: The Fire That Changed America,” a 2003 history of the fire, said they also regarded Mr. Hirsch’s list as the most authoritative.
Descendants of those who perished, like a great-granddaughter of one 33-year-old victim, Maria Lauletti, were heartened by the news, though no one interviewed had yet made a decision whether to exhume bodies from the Evergreens cemetery and attempt a DNA match.
“It means that there’s recognition that she actually died in the fire,” said Mary Ann Lauletti Hacker, 57, of Fountain Hills, Ariz. “To me, that’s a finality. She positively can be part of the record of those who died.”
No New York City agencies and no newspapers at the time produced a complete list of the dead, Mr. Hirsch said. The most thorough list — 140 names — was compiled by Mr. Von Drehle when he wrote his book, and that was largely based on names plucked from accounts in four contemporary newspapers.
The obscurity of their names is evidence of the times, when lives were lived quietly and people were forced by economic and familial circumstances to swiftly move on from tragedies — with no Facebook or reality television cameras to record their every step and thought.
CONTINUED…Photo: From left, Max Florin, Fannie Rosen, Dora Evans and Josephine Cammarata were... more
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The Fluffy Heads visit Trash and Vaudeville that has been opened to the East Village for 35 years catering to the punk, rock n roll genre. We talk to the Manager/Stylist Jimmy Webb about the gentrification of the East Village.The Fluffy Heads visit Trash and Vaudeville that has been opened to the East Village... more
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Hello everyone! I am a college student at FIT in New York City and I have a show called Fluffy Heads! We're an open forum on economic issues. We will also cover new age concepts. The show is artistic and fun to watch. Please support us and watch the show!
This episode is about the gentrification of the East Village.
Thank you!Hello everyone! I am a college student at FIT in New York City and I have a show... more
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The Fluffy Heads visit Trash and Vaudeville that has been opened to the East Village for 35 years catering to the punk, rock n roll genre. We talk to the Manager/Stylist Jimmy Webb about the gentrification of the East Village.The Fluffy Heads visit Trash and Vaudeville that has been opened to the East Village... more
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Hello everyone! I am a college student at FIT in New York City and I have a show called Fluffy Heads! We're an open forum on economic issues. We will also cover new age concepts. The show is artistic and fun to watch. Please support us and watch the show!
This episode is about the gentrification of the East Village.
Thank you!Hello everyone! I am a college student at FIT in New York City and I have a show... more
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NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS are pleased to present their final prime-time show of the season, (un)afraid, written and performed by Jill Beckman, Cara Francis, Ricardo Gamboa & Dan McCoy, directed by Rob Neill. (un)afraid will be presented at the historic Living Theater (21 Clinton St, NY 10002). Performances begin Thursday, October 14th and continue through Saturday, November 6th. Opening Night is Thursday, October 14th (at 7 P.M.).
Tell us your secret ghost story. Tell us your fever dreams. Tell us why you fear your fellow human being. The New York Neo-Futurists' Fall 2010 horror show and fear experiment, (un)afraid, celebrates and examines the concept, causes and consequences of fear, both in our society and in ourselves. Attempting to summon a different guest spirit each performance, from such deceased masters of horror as Edgar Allen Poe, HP Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, M.R, and James. The New York Neo-Futurists call upon the forces of chance and change to present a different show every night, putting expectations on shaky ground and melding our mythical fear of what goes bump in the night with the terror of simply living. Combining elements of personal ghost story, video assault, monster-mash-mayhem, and audience-interactive freak-out, Neo-Futurists Jill Beckman, Cara Francis, Daniel McCoy & Ricardo Gamboa will usher you beyond the very edge of their and your, most startling, gruesome, and diabolical fears. Welcome to our nightmare.
Jennie Miller is the producer; Liz Jenetopulos is the set & prop designer; Hunter Kaczorowski is the costume designer; Lauren Parrish is the technical director and lighting designer; Christopher Loar is the sound designer; Adam Smith is the video designer. Laura Shlachtmeyer is the stage manager, and Shane Reader is the assistant stage manager.
(un)afraid has the following schedule through Saturday, November 6th:
Thursdays at 7:30 pm
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm & 10:30 pm
Additional Performances:
Monday, October 25th at 7:30 pm
Wednesday October 27th at 7:30 pm
Wednesday, November 3rd at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $18.00 ($12 Student rush with valid I.D.) Advance tickets can be purchased online at www.nynf.org, or by calling 212-352-3101. Tickets may also be purchased at the theatre’s box office half hour before curtain.
Running Time: 60 minutes. No Intermission.
In preparation for (un)afraid, Jill, Cara, Ricardo and Daniel have broken into a mental institution, summoned the spirits of gamblers and animals on a mountain, and will soon conduct four fear experiments right here in New York City. Keep an eye out to catch them, or spectate from a safe distance by watching their video blogs.
For more information about (un)afraid, visit www.nyneofuturists.org
For updates and video blogs, visit www.beunafraid.blogspot.comNEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS are pleased to present their final prime-time show of the... more
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Now, this is quite a scene...very confusing at first. Looking at this picture, I thought, “What is a YTIC KROY WEN?” Then I realized, it's probably someplace down on the Lower East Side in New York City. Hah...and not New Rock City, either. But the photograph is very well done, the timing is terrific, getting the cyclist in view at the right moment. And even the dirty window adds something to this composition!
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/photo-of-the-day-new-rock-city/Now, this is quite a scene...very confusing at first. Looking at this picture, I... more
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For the past four years, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have walked by or on top of the orange lines have unwittingly passed what is the biggest graffiti tag in the world. The tag, which is so vast that all parts of it cannot be viewed at the same time, was created by an artist known as Momo in 2006 and consists of a single paint line that runs about eight miles long and spells out his name.
It runs from the East River to the Hudson River and extends north to 14th Street and south to Grand Street. The line runs over curbstones and subway grates and zigzags around lampposts and manhole covers. Its route begins at the edge of a West Side pier and ends after crossing a footbridge over the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. “I wanted to make a trail that people could follow,” Momo said. “And I realized that I could write something if I planned it out with the street grid.”
The project was inspired by a series of purple footprints that were painted on Manhattan sidewalks in 1986, which stretched all the way from the Upper East Side down to Foley Square. Those mysterious markings led to a spot on Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side, where the city had bulldozed an elaborate community garden called the Garden of Eden, which had been created by a squatter named Adam Purple. Momo said he glimpsed the footprints as a child and was captivated.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/momo-tags-manhattan-the-biggest-graffiti-tag-in-the-world/For the past four years, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have walked by or on... more
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Now at first glance, this strikes me as a very somber, melancholy scene. The picture shows an old fellow sitting all alone there in what looks like his darkened, shabby little room in an old SRO hotel on the Bowery. But then again, maybe the man's in a peaceful kind of solitude, reminiscing about remembrances of things past as he gazes up at the sunny sky through the window. Reminds me so much of June Carter's songs, which is why these two music videos go along with this wonderful photograph so well. Yes, June Carter singing, “Keep on the Sunny Side.” Perfect.
This piece includes the remarkable high-resolution color photograph, as well as the two music videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/photo-of-the-day-look-on-the-sunny-side/Now at first glance, this strikes me as a very somber, melancholy scene. The picture... more
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Oh, Neat...This looks like might it be way down on Thompson Street, the Lower East Side. Sort of a picture within a picture, each one with its own particular composition. Moving, yes it's getting to be about that time of month. And seems like that swarthy, muscular moving guy could be from Little Italy. This is really a very cool scene to gaze at, and that very sexy, intense-looking dude certainly doesn’t hurt, either!
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/photo-of-the-day-the-lower-east-side-moving-van-man/Oh, Neat...This looks like might it be way down on Thompson Street, the Lower East... more
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What a terrific little tableau, even without that ghostly walker, which really adds some zing to it! For sure, those high spiked heels are effing beautiful. Really have to think hard about the rest of it though, but if you look very carefully you'll see it. It really is a superb miniature three-way parade: Thinking-Walking-Working. To each his own!
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/photo-of-the-day-thinking-walking-working/What a terrific little tableau, even without that ghostly walker, which really adds... more
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Yes indeed, just take yourself a look at this unbelievable big sale that's going on right now at this place on New York's Lower East Side. It's astounding...a fantastic bargain at twice the price, or even more! And the guy here is looking at the sale sign with utter shock, his mouth dropped wide open and looks about ready to fall right off his skater-board in anticipated reverie. Yep, we got ourselves a truly dazzling bargain here...take yourselves a look...act fast!
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/photo-of-the-day-a-bargain-at-twice-the-price/Yes indeed, just take yourself a look at this unbelievable big sale that's going... more
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It is neither self-forgetting and pain-loving antiquarianism, nor intoxicating romanticism that compels us to turn with a renewed passionate interest in learning about and appreciating the origins of the New Journalism. Our present world of public discourse has taken rigidly hostile polarized constructs of traditional Main-Stream Media versus the contemporary incarnation of New Media. However, while the former has long been understood to focus largely upon the accumulation of power and wealth, the same has come to be the goal of new media organizations. In fact, present-day new media organizations are made even more repugnant by their petty, envy-based sarcastic commentaries and idolatry of faux-celebrity life. Further, whatever their seeming differences, both forms of media share in the adherence to vicious levels of social and political ideology, which strongly bias and distort the communications and news presented to the public.
The origins of New Journalism are examined here through a review of the pioneering contributions of the inner-circle of The Beat Generation writers, who included Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso. The commentary is further expanded and enriched by stunning vintage photographs, a remarkable slide show of additional vintage images and six documentary films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/the-lonely-beat-generation-dawn-of-the-new-journalism/It is neither self-forgetting and pain-loving antiquarianism, nor intoxicating... more
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A poetry-themed version of their critically acclaimed signature show, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, this ever-changing, lightening-paced performance of 30 Poems In 60 Minutes will be dedicated to theater that is poetic, musical, lyrical, powerful and that sometimes...rhymes.
NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS are pleased to present a special edition of their ongoing show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind in honor of the culmination of National Poetry Month. TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND: 30 POEMS IN 60 MINUTES will be presented at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003) on Friday, April 30th and Saturday, May 1st at 10:30pm.
30 Poems In 60 Minutes will feature New York Neo-Futurists’ Jill Beckman, Desiree Burch, Cara Francis, Kevin R. Free, Ryan Good, Daniel McCoy, Rob Neill, Joey Rizzolo and Lauren Sharpe. They will be joined by alumni favorites Claudia Alick and F. Omar Telan.
Tickets are $10.00 plus the roll of a six-sided die ($11-$16) at the door. Advance tickets are $16.00 and can be purchased online at www.nyneofuturists.org, or by calling 212-352-3101.
In Honor of Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 27th, the Neos will be extending their "poetic footprint" by creating a series of wild postings throughout New York City honoring poems past, present, and Neo-future.
For more information on these events and 30 Poems in 60 Minutes, visit http://www.nyneofuturists.org
THE NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS are an ensemble of dynamic writer/performer/directors who present the critically acclaimed, energetic show of original short plays, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind--a non-illusory collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental, while embracing chance, change, and chaos. Developing out of the format that has been a success in Chicago since 1988, the New York Neo-Futurists have roots in NYC from the mid 90’s. Since opening TML in New York, they have created over 1900 plays and continue to present new and vital work every weekend in the East Village. For more info: www.nynf.orgA poetry-themed version of their critically acclaimed signature show, Too Much Light... more
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“On the Street” is a collection of photographs by Amy Arbus; the photographs presented here were selected from Arbus’s original photo-column that ran in “The Village Voice” between 1980 and 1990, a page that documented New York City’s downtown area’s most vibrant, creative dressers and personalities.
Now that Manhattan is only habitable for the very rich, many New Yorkers love to reminiscently look back to the truly mad and crazy ‘80s, an era when the Bowery could be quite dangerous and apartments were still fairly affordable. Back in the original 1980s and 1990s, Amy Arbus found the subjects for her extremely unique photographs mostly by just wandering around the Village, looking for people who were wearing visually creative and unusual outfits, a lot of polka dots, or stripes, or everyone wearing hats in the summertime. At the time, there was nothing else like it. Until Arbus's photographic work, there hadn’t been any kind of record of the East Village scene when it was comprised of this particularly promising, hopeful group of talented, interesting people.
Describing her pictures from this 1980s to 1990s collection, Arbus stated, “In terms of the clothes, I think they were fantastic and funny and outrageous and silly….There was no kind of judgment going on at the time. Everyone wanted to be noticed, no matter what it was for. That’s completely gone. Being noticed is irrelevant now. You have to make such waves to be a success at things now that dressing differently may make an impression, but it’s not going to get you a career.”
Included here are a large number of wonderful vintage Arbus photographs, a video from her documentary film “On the Street,” a remarkable full-screen high-resolution slide show and an additional audio-slide show of Amy Arbus’s photography.“On the Street” is a collection of photographs by Amy Arbus; the... more
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Law and Order:SVU will be filming at W 130th tomorrow between Lenox and 5th, New York City from 6am to 2 am.
The Adjustment Bureau is filming at Parkway Hospital, 7035 113th St, Forest Hills, NY.
Signs are up on 12th Street between 6th and 7th Ave in Manhattan too, these may be for tomorrow.
The Other Guys signs starring Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell were spotted on Orchard and Canal, New York City.
Rescue Me is filming around 2nd Ave between 2nd and 3rd St, New York City.
Signs also spotted in in the vicinity of Gates and Downing, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn for today and tomorrow.
Wall Street 2 with Michael Douglas is filming around Milburn Ave and Weir St in Hempstead, New York.
Click the link for more filming locations..Law and Order:SVU will be filming at W 130th tomorrow between Lenox and 5th, New York... more
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This scene takes my breath away, she's just so beautiful! Something this picture about it reminds me of that old classic painting “Death of Marat” by Jacques-Louis David. It's somewhat melancholy and sad, but at the same time so very serene. The photographer of this scene has exquisitely captured the rich textures of that couch in the middle of such a gritty scene, lending it the shabby elegance of a faded grand dame. There are so many oppositions in there: colors and textures, warm and cold, home and street, inside and outside. It really captures the feel of New York City's Lower East Side.This scene takes my breath away, she's just so beautiful! Something this picture... more
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