Books and Articles
Abbott, Berenice. New York in the Thirties. New York: Dover, 1939.
Abbott, Jack Henry, with Naomi Zack. My Return. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1987.
Alger, Horatio. Ragged Dick and Mark, The Match Boy. New York: Macmillan, 1962. Impressively undermining introduction (“No doubt that what he wrote was bilge . . .”) by Rychard Fink. Ragged Dick was originally published in 1867.
“All-Craft All Gone.” Villager. November 20, 2002.
Allen, Michael. This Time, This Place. Indianapolis/Kansas City/New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1971.
Allmen, Rick. Stanley: The Don Juan of Second Avenue. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.
Anasi, Robert. The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish. Those Days. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
Arnett, Frank S. “The Evolution of Manhattan,” pp. 397–403 in Tales of Gaslight New York. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1985.
Badger, Emily. “How Many Gentrification Critics Are Actually Gentrifiers Themselves?” Atlantic, Cities blog. August 8, 2013.
Baraka, Amiri. The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1997 (1st edition: 1984).
Bell, Barbara. “You Don’t Have to Be High.” New York Times. December 28, 1969.
Bergmann, Eugene B. Excelsior, You Fathead! The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2005.
Berinère, Vincent, and Mariel Primois, eds. Punk Press: Rebel Rock in the Underground Press 1968–1980. New York: Abrams, 2012.
Berman, Marshall, and Brian Berger, eds. New York Calling. London: Reaktion Books, 2007.
Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Berrigan, Ted. The Sonnets. New York: Penguin Poets, 2000.
“Black Hand Panics Spread in Schools.” New York Times. June 18, 1926.
Blake, Mark, ed. Punk: The Whole Story. New York: DK Publishing, 2006.
Blau, Eleanor. “63 and an Activist, She Hopes to be an Episcopal Priest.” New York Times. February 11, 1974.
Bleyer, Jennifer. “Like a Tree With Many Rings, a Building With Many Lives.” New York Times. April 24, 2005.
Blinderman, Barry, ed. Keith Haring: Future Primeval. Normal, Illinois: University Galleries, 2009.
Bourdon, David. Warhol. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989.
Brant, Meagan. “Shoe Design Find in an Unlikely Spot on St. Mark’s.” Villager 76, no. 31 (December 27, 2006–January 2, 2007).
Brodhead, John. A History of the State of New York. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853.
Brownstein, Michael. Self-Reliance. New York: Coffee House Press, 1994.
Buder, Leonard. “Aiding a Neighbor, Boy Is Killed in Fall Down Air Shaft.” New York Times. September 5, 1985.
Buhle, Paul, and David Berger. Bohemians: A Graphic History. London: Verso, 2014.
Burdell, Edwin S. “A Symbol in Brownstone: The Story of the Foundation Building of the Cooper Union.” Cooper Union Alumni News 17, no. 2 (February 1953). Available at library.cooperunion.edu.
Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage Books Edition, 1975 (1st edition: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974).
Carr, Cynthia. Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012.
Carroll, Jim. The Basketball Diaries. New York: Penguin, 1978.
Carroll, Patrick J. “Operation Pressure Point: An Urban Drug Enforcement Strategy.” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 58, no. 4 (April 1989).
Casson, Herbert N. “The Story of the General Slocum Disaster,” pp. 37–60 in Tales of Gaslight New York. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1985. Originally published in Munsey’s Magazine (December 1904).
Champion, Miles. “Insane Podium: The Poetry Project, 1966–.” PoetryProject.org. Accessed June 17, 2012.
Chesler, Phyllis. “All-Craft Foundation: Assessment and Recommendations.” Unpublished manuscript. Courtesy of Joyce Hartwell. (July 1993).
“Chief and Gangmen Held for Murder.” New York Times. January 11, 1914.
Christgau, Robert. “Bohemias Lost and Found.” Barnes & Noble Review. January 19, 2009.
———. “Pioneer Days.” Barnes & Noble Review. November 21, 2011.
Clay, Steven, and Rodney Phillips. A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960–1980. New York: New York Public Library and Granary Books, 1998.
“Club 57 and the Sweet, Sweet Smell of St. Mark’s Place.” BoweryBoys.blogspot .com. May 1, 2009.
Cocks, Jay. “East Village Stars and Stripes.” Time. April 7, 1986.
Cooper, James Fenimore. New York. New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1930.
———. Satanstoe, or The Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
Cooper, Lee. “Changes are Noted in Lower East Side; Indoor Markets Eliminating Pushcarts.” New York Times. February 21, 1939.
———. “Fewer Tenements on the Lower East Side Now Unprotected Against Hazard of Fire.” New York Times. August 8, 1940.
“Court Sanctions Stuyvesant Town.” New York Times. December 3, 1943.
Cowley, Malcolm. Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s. London: Bodley Head, rev. ed. 1964 (1st edition: 1934).
Crapsey, Edward. The Nether Side of New York: Or, The Vice, Crime and Poverty of the Great Metropolis. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1872.
“Crowd at Wedding Stampeded by Fire.” New York Times. June 16, 1935.
“Cultural Revolution.” Editors Note, n+1. April 29, 2013.
Curtis, Olga. East of Third: Memories of Old Manhattan. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Oriole Press, 1955. Rare Books Room, NYPL.
Day, Dorothy. “On Pilgrimage: October/November 1973.” Catholic Worker, October–November 1973. Via the Catholic Worker Movement. http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/Reprint2.cfm?TextID=534.
Dayton, Dorothy. “St. Mark’s Back Within the Fold.” New York City Sun. February 2, 1932.
Denison, Lindsay. “The Black Hand,” pp. 79–92 in Tales of Gaslight New York. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1985. Originally published in Everybody’s Magazine (September 1908).
The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974–1984. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.
“Dr. Pauli Murray, Episcopal Priest.” New York Times. July 4, 1985.
Ego, Les. Zentences: Meditation Manual for Mini-Minds and Mystics. New York: “The Catholic Union Mission” (self-published), 1971. Rare Books Room, New York Public Library.
“Everyone’s Doing It—The New Now Look of the Frizz,” People, May 26, 1975, pp. 8–11.
Feinberg, David B. Eighty-Sixed: A Novel. New York: Viking Adult, 1989.
Feininger, Andreas. New York in the Forties. New York: Dover Publications, 1978.
Feuer, Alan. “Last Bohemian Turns Out the Lights.” New York Times. April 4, 2014.
“Finds Lower East Side Suited Only to Rich.” New York Times. March 18, 1932.
Fink, Joseph, and Lloyd G. Sealy. The Community and the Police—Conflict or Cooperation? New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974.
Fletcher, Tony. All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York, 1927–77. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
“Found with Dynamite, Held in Palmieri Case.” New York Times. March 6, 1927.
Franke-Ruta, Garance. “Everlasting Realities of the Bohemian Lifestyle.” Atlantic. August 2013.
Franklin, Harold. Run a Twisted Street. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1970.
“Gamblers Resist Raid.” New York Times. May 9, 1912.
Gay, Peter. Modernism: The Lure of Heresy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.
Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems: 1947–1997. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.
Golden, Stephen A. O. “Talk is Strange in the East Village.” New York Times. April 16, 1967.
Goldstein, Richard [of the New York Times]. Helluva Town: The Story of New York City During World War II. New York: Free Press, 2010.
Goldstein, Richard [of the Voice]. Reporting the Counterculture. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Goodman, Paul. Growing Up Absurd. New York: Random House, 1960.
Goodwin, Maud Wilder, Alice Carrington Royce, Ruth Putnam, and Eva Palmer Brownell, eds. Historic New York: Being the Second Series of the Half Moon Papers. New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1899.
Graham, Bill, and Robert Greenfield. Bill Graham Presents: My Life inside Rock and Out. New York: Da Capo Press, 2004 (1st edition: Doubleday, 1990).
Gray, Christopher. “Be There or Be Square, 1830 to the Present.” New York Times. January 6, 2011.
———. “Streetscapes: 19–25 St. Marks Place; The Eclectic Life of a Row of East Village Houses.” New York Times. November 8, 1998.
Green, Penelope. “The Prince of St. Marks Place.” New York Times. December 12, 2012.
Griffis, William Elliot. The Story of New Netherland. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. Withdrawn from the Cooper Union Library.
Gruen, John. The New Bohemia. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1966.
Guthrie, William. Offices of Mystical Religion. New York: Century Press, 1927.
Hahne, Ron. Black Mask and Up against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea and the Black Mask Group. London: Salamander Press, 1993.
Hamill, Pete. “The New York We’ve Lost.” New York. December 21–28, 1987.
Harrington, Michael. “‘A San Remo Type’: The Vanishing Village.” Village Voice. January 7, 1971.
Harris, Charles T. Memories of Manhattan in the Sixties and Seventies. New York: Derrydale Press, 1928.
Harvey, Matt. “The East Village Isn’t What It Used to Be . . . And It Never Was.” New York Press. December 10, 2008.
Haynes, Jesper. St. Marks 1986–2006: Twenty Years of Love and Friendships. Self-published photo book, ca. 2010.
Hell, Richard. I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp. New York: HarperCollins, 2013.
Henahan, Donal. “Too Soon to Demand a ‘War and Peace.’” New York Times. September 15, 1968.
Henderson, Eleanor. Ten Thousand Saints: A Novel. New York: Ecco, 2011.
Herlihy, James Leo. Season of the Witch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
Hertel, Fredrika W. A Guide to Historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bouwerie. New York: J. Jay Devitt Co. Litho, 1949. Collected in George A. Trefethen, Strawberry Bank’s Bank—and The Marquis de Lafayette 1824. New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1950.
Hispanic Study Report: Phase One. Funded by Columbia University, National Institutes of Mental Health, and New York State Drug Abuse Control Commission. Presented to Commissioner D. Klepak Narcotic and Drug Research, Inc. October 15, 1976. Courtesy of the private collection of Joyce Hartwell.
“Hold-Up Suspects Captured in Store.” New York Times. January 29, 1946.
Hollander, Kurt. Low Rent: A Decade of Prose and Photographs from The Portable Lower East Side. New York: Grove Press, 1994.
Holleran, Andrew, ed. Dancer from the Dance. New York: Bantam, 1979 (1st edition: 1978).
Holloway, Margurite. The Measure of Manhattan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.
Horowitz, I. “Which Definition of Beat?” Village Voice. February 19, 1958.
Indiana, Gary. Horse Crazy. London: Paladin, 1989.
Ingraham, Joseph C. “Our Changing City: Old Lower Manhattan Area.” New York Times. June 24, 1955.
Irving, Washington. Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New-York. New York: Heritage Press, 1940 (1st edition: 1809).
Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
Jacobs, Jaap. The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage Books Edition, 1992 (1st edition: Random House, 1961).
Jahn, Mike. “‘Velvet’ Rock Group Opens Stand Here.” New York Times. July 4, 1970.
Janowitz, Meta F., and Diane Dallal, eds. Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City. New York: Springer, 2013.
Janvier, Thomas A. In Old New York. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1922 (1st edition: 1894).
Johnson, Jill. Marmalade Me. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1971.
Jones, Hettie. How I Became Hettie Jones. New York: Grove Press, 1990.
Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka). Home: Social Essays. New York: AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series, 2009 (1st edition: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1966).
Jones, Thai. A Radical Line. New York: Free Press, 2004.
Joseph, Barry. Waving the Mouse. Unpublished novel set on St. Marks Place, 1995.
Kalish, Jon. “‘Fug You’: The Wild Life of Ed Sanders.” NPR. May 4, 2012.
Kapralov, Yuri. Once There Was a Village. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1974.
Kashner, Sam. When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Katzman, Allen, ed. Our Time: Interviews from the East Village Other. New York: Dial Press, 1972.
Kayton, Bruce. Radical Walking Tours of New York City. 2nd edition. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003.
Kemsley, William. “Psychedelic Shopping,” pp. 10–14 in Ford Times. January 1969.
Kent, Leticia. “High on Life and Deader than Dead.” Village Voice. October 12, 1967.
Kessler, Henry H., and Eugene Rachlis. Peter Stuyvesant and His New York: A Biography of a Man and a City. New York: Random House, 1959.
Kleinfeld, N. R. “On the Street of Dreams.” New York Times. November 22, 1992.
Kludt, Amanda. “Turning Japanese: The Changing Face of St. Marks Place Looks Asian.” Villager 74, no. 20 (February 9–15, 2005).
Kolossa, Alexandra. Haring. Los Angeles: Taschen, 2009.
Kraft, Herbert C. The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage: 10,000 BC to AD 2000. Stanhope, NJ: Lenape Lifeways Books, 2001.
Kristal, Hilly. CBGB’s: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
Landler, Mark. “Media: Press; Joey Skaggs, who delights in practical jokes on the press, has got a million of them.” New York Times. January 29, 1996.
Landmarks Preservation Commission. Hamilton-Holly House, 4 St. Mark’s Place, Manhattan. Built 1831. October 19, 2004: Designation List 357 LP-2157.
Ledoux, Urbain. Mr. Zero? Published by the author for the Old Bucks and Lame Ducks Club, and the Tub, located at 33 St. Marks Place, New York City. Copyrighted for them by the author in 1931. Copy in collection of the New York Public Library.
Lee, Erica. “On the Stoop of Rock n’ Roll History.” New York Times Local East Village Blog. October 22, 2010.
Lees, Loretta, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wyly. Gentrification. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Lehman, David. The Last Avant-Garde. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
Leland, John. “East Village Shrine to Riots and Radicals.” New York Times. December 8, 2012.
LeSueur, Joe. Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O’Hara. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Levins, Peter. “Robbery of Stewart Grave—One of N.Y.’s Biggest Mysteries.” Sunday News. December 31, 1939.
Lincoln, Abraham. “Cooper Union Address.” February 27, 1860. Available online at constitution.org/csa/lincoln/cooper.htm.
Lipton, Lawrence. The Holy Barbarians. New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1959.
Live Sex Acts. New York: Portable Lower East Side, 1991.
“Lower East Side to Get Apartments.” New York Times. February 4, 1962.
Lukas, J. Anthony. “The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick.” New York Times. October 16, 1967.
Mack, Edward C. Peter Cooper, Citizen of New York. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. Copy available in the Cooper Union Library.
Mailer, Norman. Advertisements for Myself. New York: Signet, 1959.
Marriott, Red. “Ben Morea: An Interview by Ian McIntyre (2006).” Libcom.org. March 24, 2012.
Mathews, John. “Wealthy Women as Teachers of Cooking.” Leslie’s Weekly. June 11, 1903.
McAuliffe, Kevin Michael. The Great American Newspaper: The Rise and Fall of the Village Voice. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.
McDarrah, Fred W. Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1985.
McGlone, Molly. “Excavating Experimentalism: Investigating Musical Space, The Electric Circus, and Nineteen-Sixties New York.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010.
McNeil, Legs, and Gillian McCain. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk. New York: Grove, 1996.
“Memorial of St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery,” 1899. Copy in the collection of the New York Public Library.
Metzger, Richard. “East Village Preservation Society: Club 57.” Dazeddigital.com. 2012.
Miles, Barry. In the Seventies: Adventures in the Counterculture. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2011.
Miller, Marc. H. “The East Village New York City: A Walking Tour and Poster.” Brooklyn: Ephemera Press, ca. 2008. From St. Mark’s Bookshop.
Miller, Mark Crispin, ed. While We Were Sleeping: NYU and the Destruction of New York. New York: McNally Jackson Books, 2012.
Miller, Terry. Greenwich Village and How It Got That Way. New York: Crown, 1990.
Miller, Tom. “I Remember Jerry.” Tucson Weekly. April 27–May 3, 1995.
Millman, Joel. The Other Americans: How Immigrants Renew Our Country, Our Economy, and Our Values. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997.
Mitchell, Katie. Two Suspicious Girls. New York: Grove Press, 1973.
Molin, Marit. “David Godlis Took Abbie Hoffman’s Apartment Because It Was a Steal.” New York Times East Village Local Blog. August 24, 2011.
Moore, Alan W. “ABC No Rio as an Anarchist Space.” Article awaiting publication, courtesy of Alan Moore.
Moore, Pamela. Diana. New York: Dell, 1961.
Morgan, Bill. The Beat Generation in New York. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997.
———. The Typewriter is Holy. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2010.
———. Beat Atlas: A State-by-State Guide to the Beat Generation in America. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2011.
Mourik, Orli Van. “From Punk to Pucci.” Villager 76, no. 29 (December 13–19, 2006).
Moynihan, Colin. “On a Changing East Village Street, a Source of Continuity.” New York Times. January 6, 2014.
Murray, Pauli. The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. Originally published as Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage by Harper & Row, 1987.
Nersesian, Arthur. East Village Tetralogy: Four Plays. New York: Akashic Books, 2006.
———. Gladyss of the Hunt. Portland, OR: Verse Chorus Press, 2014.
Neumann, Osha. Up against the Wall Motherfucker: A Memoir of the ’60s, with Notes for Next Time. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008.
Neves, Irene. “The Trend to ‘African Fashions for Everyone.’” Life. September 16, 1966.
Newman, Michael. “W. H. Auden, The Art of Poetry No. 17.” Paris Review. Autumn 1972.
“Nine Persons Routed from Tenement Homes When Wall Cracks, Threatening Collapse.” New York Times. March 10, 1938.
Northrop, H. D. New York’s Awful Steamboat Horror, and Other Dreadful Tragedies. New York: D. Z. Howell, 1904.
O’Brien, Glenn, ed. The Cool School: Writing from America’s Hip Underground. New York: Library of America, 2013.
“Obscenity Case Files: Zap Comix #4.” Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. September 24, 2013.
O’Donnell, Edward T. Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum. New York: Broadway Books, 2003.
O’Kane, Lawrence. “The Bowery Awakens to an Upbeat Trend.” New York Times. October 16, 1966.
O’Neill, Joseph. Netherland. New York: Vintage, 2008.
“On St. Marks Place, Help for Addicts.” New York Times. December 6, 1987.
Padgett, Ron. Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. New York: Coffee House Press, 2008.
———. Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan. New York: Figures, 1993.
Paikert, Charles. “The Ukrainians: The Little Nation on Second Avenue.” Daily News Sunday Magazine. May 21, 1978.
“Parkhurst Raid Succeeds.” New York Times. March 9, 1900.
Parry, Albert. Garrets and Pretenders: Bohemian Life from Poe to Kerouac. Mineola: Dover Publications, 2012 (1st edition: 1960).
Patterson, Clayton, ed. Captured: The History of Film and Video on the Lower East Side. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005.
———, ed. Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007.
Peck, Abe. “Abe Peck on Why EVO Mattered.” New York Times Local East Village Blog. February 25, 2012.
“Peg-Leg Pete’s Bouwerie Tours.” Various editions (Groovie, Gilded Age, Jazz Age, etc.) St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund. 2012–2013.
“Police Kill Gunman Holding 2 As Hostages in the East Village.” New York Times. December 24, 1974.
Portrait, Evelyn. “The Other Village—East.” No date or source. Limbo’s archive.
Ramone, Johnny. Commando. New York: Abrams, 2012.
Ramone, Marky. Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone. New York: Touchstone, 2014.
Ratliff, Ben. “Outsider Whose Dark, Lyrical Vision Helped Shape Rock ‘n’ Roll.” New York Times. October 27, 2013.
“Receiver Debated for ‘Mr. Zero’s’ $37.” New York Times. June 10, 1931.
Regelson, Rosalyn. “‘Not a Boy, Not a Girl, Just Me.’” New York Times. November 2, 1969.
Reinholz, Mary. “Radical Priest Resigns, Then Later Rethinks, But Is Rejected.” Villager 78, no. 23 (November 6–11, 2008).
Riffee, Mark. “Tribes of New York.” The Local East Village blog. March 30, 2011.
Rivers, Larry. What Did I Do? New York: Da Capo Press, 2001.
Robbins, Tom. “Tuli Kupferberg: Model Village Citizen, 1923–2010.” Village Voice. July 13, 2010.
Rockwell, John. “Rock Meets Disco: Where To Try It.” New York Times. April 27, 1979.
Romano, Tricia, “The Safety Dance: You Can’t Dance If You Want To,” and “A Crash Course in Cabarets.” Village Voice. November 26, 2002.
Rombes, Nicholas. A Cultural History of Punk: 1974–1982. New York: Continuum, 2009.
Rossner, Judith. Looking for Mr. Goodbar. New York: Pocket Books, 1975.
Rubenstein, Joshua. Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
Rylance, J. H. “A Statement to the Members of St. Mark’s Parish,” New York: Evening Post Job Print, 1890. In New York City Churches. Presented at the Memorial Service, Middle Dutch Church, Second Ave., November Second, A.D. 1900. New York Public Library Collection. Also appears as: “St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, N.Y., A Statement to the Members from J. H. Rylance, Rector,” 1890. Copy in the collection of the New York Public Library.
“St. Marks Block Set to Change.” Villager. December 4, 2002.
“St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, New York. The tercentenary of the city of New York and our neighborhood,” 1953. Copy in the collection of the New York Public Library.
“St. Mark’s Honors Peter Stuyvesant.” New York World Telegraph. January 30, 1939.
“St. Mark’s In-the-Bouwerie: A Vital Expression of Present-Day Religion in New York City: A Statement of Plans and Policies by the Rector, Wardens and Vestry,” 1942? Copy in the collection of the New York Public Library.
St. Marks Place Block Association Newsletters and Flyers. Courtesy of Phillip Giambri. 1974–75.
“St. Mark’s Sees Huston in Role of Stuyvesant.” 1939.
Sanders, Ed. Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side. New York: Da Capo, 2013.
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Sharff, Jagna Wojcicka. King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
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Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America. New York: Doubleday, 2004.
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Smith, Patti. Just Kids. New York: Ecco, 2010.
“Snowfall a Boon to the Jobless.” New York Times. March 10, 1928.
Solomon, Carl. Emergency Messages: An Autobiographical Miscellany. New York: Paragon House, 1989.
Solomon, Serena. “7-Eleven is ‘Pringle-izing’ the East Village, Anti-Chain Advocates Fume.” DNAinfo.com. January 17, 2013.
Spitz, Marc. Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the ’90s. Boston: Da Capo, 2013.
Stansell, Christine. American Moderns. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000.
Stein, Mark, with Larry Schweikrat. You Keep Me Hangin’ On. La Vergne, TN: Lightning Source, 2012.
Stettner, Irving. Adventures of a 2nd Avenue Patroller. Saitama, Japan: Stroker Press, 2000.
———, ed. Stroker Anthology: 1974–1994. New York: Stroker Press, 1994.
Stinson, John D. “Randy Wicker Papers, 1958–1993, Biographical Note.” New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division. April 1995.
Stonehill, Judith. Greenwich Village: A Guide to America’s Legendary Left Bank. New York: Universe, 2002.
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Talen, Bill. What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is in My Store? New York: New Press, 2003.
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———. Murder on St. Mark’s Place (Gaslight Mystery). New York: Berkley, 2000.
Tippins, Sherill. Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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Trotsky, Leon. My Life. New York: Universal Library Edition, 1973 (1st edition: 1930).
Truscott, Lucian IV. “St. Marks Place, 1971: One-Way Street.” Village Voice. August 26, 1971.
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“12-Foot Wall Hides Once Dazzling Shop.” New York Times. August 26, 1915.
Tytell, John. Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1999.
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East Village Magazines and Newspapers
The East Village has produced a pretty remarkable number of literary magazines over the years. My father, Peter Schjeldahl, started Mother: A Journal of New Literature in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1964. When he moved to New York, he continued publication. Poets featured in Mother 8, published in May 1967, include Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Harry Mathews, James Schulyer, and Ed Sanders. Schjeldahl also served as features editor for Avant Garde magazine, which was published from 1968 to 1971. Among the several articles he wrote for Avant Garde under various pseudonyms was issue 7’s “The Satyricon of Petronius: A New Take, a translation by Edgar A. Bunning, America’s foremost Latin scholar.” Schjeldahl, who knew no Latin, “translated” it in that he propped up three old translations on his desk and made a new one that was as different from them as they were from one another.
Other East Village zines include The East Village Other (headquarters at 147 Avenue A), which made the Village Voice look conservative. It was published from 1965 to 1972. At one point, its circulation was 65,000. Here’s a short list of East Village magazines, nearly all of which are defunct:
Adventures in Poetry
Avant Garde
Between C and D (Catherine Texier and Joel Rose)
Birth (Tuli Kupferberg)
Black Mask (Ben Morea)
C (Ted Berrigan)
Culture Hero: A Fanzine of Stars of the Super World (Les Levine)
Cuz (Richard Hell)
The East Village Eye (For a while at no. 120; 1979–1987; online 2013: http://www.east-village-eye.com)
The East Village Other (1965–1972)
East Villager (1980s)
The Eleventh Street Ruse
The Floating Bear (LeRoi Jones and Diane Di Prima)
Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (And the best-name award goes to Ed Sanders.)
Gandhabba
Just Another Asshole (Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca)
Live Sex Acts
Milk (Gillian McCain)
Modern School Magazine
Mother (Peter Schjeldahl)
Poetry Project affiliated: Poetry Project Newsletter, Telephone, Adventures in Poetry, Un Poco Loco, Mag City, The 4, 3, 2 Review, The Harris Review, Reindeer, The 12th Street Punk
Project Papers (Ed Friedman)
Punk (1976–1979; 1981–2007)
Rag, Caveman, Unnatural Acts, Little Light, Tangerine
The Rat
The Realist
The Recluse (Poetry Project, 2005)
Redtape (Michael Carter)
The Shadow
Stroker (by Irving Stettner, with frequent contributions from Henry Miller)
The World (Poetry Project, 1967–1983; 1992–2002)
Yugen (Hettie Jones and LeRoi Jones)
East Village Websites
1940sNewYork.com
98Bowery.com
BoweryBoogie.com
EVGrieve.com
Evhp.blogspot.com
EVTransitions.com
Forgotten-NY.com
FultonHistory.com
GVHP Off the Grid
Homeless Archives: http://homelessarchives.blogspot.com/
Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York: Vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
Leshp.org
NeitherMoreNorLess.blogspot.com
Newyork.nearsay.com
New York Songlines
Oldstreets.com
Rumur.com/astor-place (Michael Galinsky photo gallery of Astor Place peddlers in 1990)
ScoutingNY.com
StreetsYouCrossed.blogspot.com
TheLoDownNY.com
Walking Tours, Lectures, and Plays; Museum and Gallery Shows
Activist New York. Museum of the City of New York. 2014.
“AIDS in New York: The First Five Years.” New-York Historical Society. 2013.
Beat Memories. Grey Art Gallery of New York University. 2013.
Clayton Gallery and Outlaw Art Museum. 2013.
The Decline and Fall of the Art World, Part I: The One-Percenters. Freight + Volume, August 2013. Contains a Loren Munk painting of the East Village art world.
Eric Ferrara, Lower East Side History Project Walking Tour. 2012.
Karen Finley: Written in Sand. Baruch Performing Arts Center. October 2–23, 2014.
The Haunting of St. Marks Place. Under St. Marks Theater. November 18, 2012.
Barry Lewis, Greenwich Village lecture at the New-York Historical Society, 2012. “If you live long enough, you see all the ironies of history ironed out,” he said.
Jane Marx. Village Alliance Walking Tour. 2012.
Fred W. McDarrah: Save the Village. Steven Kasher Gallery. 2014.
The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. 2013.
“No Credit, Cash Only: Cookie in Film and Video,” Participant, Inc. Opened October 16, 2014.
“Opposition: Black Mask, Ben Morea, and U.A.W.M.F.” Boo-Hooray. 2014.
Punk: Chaos to Couture. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013.
“Punk Magazine Mutant Monster Beach Party.” Boo-Hooray. 2013.
The Ukrainian Museum. 2013.
Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism. New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. 2014.
The Yippie Museum. 2012.