“the web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together”
~William Shakespeare, All’s Well that Ends Well, (4.3)
(pic via bob arihood/nadie se conoce)
An abandoned building in Alphabet City, June 1986. (photo: Q. Sakamaki/NYT)
“Before long he gravitated toward Tompkins Square, the neighborhood’s central gathering spot, where he found a lively mix of people. There were law students, punks, poets and older, lifelong residents who could remember the days of the New Deal.”
2 AM Thursday Morning in Tompkins Square Park (photo by Bob Arhihood)
![alphabet city, summer 2000 (via nadie se conoce)
[the decade of gentrification]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leav941HXv1qa2c94o1_500.jpg)
alphabet city, summer 2000 (via nadie se conoce)
[the decade of gentrification]
The Upper Rust antique store on East Ninth Street near Avenue A.
Living Around | Tompkins Square Park
The main retail corridors near the park — A (above), B and C and First Avenues — are distinctive for their relative lack of chain stores, a result of neighborhood campaigns to preserve small businesses.
(nyt)
a place for refuge from the urban jungle
(at la plaza cultural community garden, alphabet city — lower east side/east village)
Avenue A Lounge
(more on Nadie Se Conoce)
Then and Now : Ray’s Candy Store , 113 Avenue A
top pic — 1995 during the easy living and easy drinking warmer season
bottom pic — 00:28 hrs , 2 March 2008
(via Neither More Nor Less)
