St. Marks is dead : the many lives of America's hippest street / Ada Calhoun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calhoun, Ada, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

History.

Alternative lifestyles.

Neighborhoods.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Manners and customs.

East Village (New York, N.Y.)--History.

East Village (New York, N.Y.).

Neighborhoods--New York (State)--New York--History.

Alternative lifestyles--New York (State)--New York--History.

Popular culture--New York (State)--New York--History.

New York (State)--New York.

New York (State)--New York--East Village.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 414 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2016]

Summary:

St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements, providing a backdrop for social and cultural revolutionaries from Leon Trotsky to Andy Warhol, the Ramones to the Beastie Boys, W. H. Auden to Keith Haring, Allen Ginsberg to the skaters of the movie Kids. Every group has maintained that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex, and that after they left--whether "they" were the Beats, the hippies, the punks, or the hardcore kids--the street was dead. In this idiosyncratic work of narrative history, enriched by more than two hundred interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun uncovers the largely unknown 400-year history of this epicenter of American cool. She traces the street from its origins as a Dutch farm to its current incarnation as a hipster playground--organized around those pivotal moments when yet another group of miscreant denizens declared, "St. Marks is dead."--Adapted from book jacket.

Contents:

"A very Eden" : 10,000 BC-AD 1904

"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

Epilogue: "Hold my hand, squeeze real tight" : 2000-2015.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-397) and index.

ISBN:

9780393240382

039324038X

OCLC:

902661448