East Village
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- This represents all the residents reaction to the change in East Village. The essence of the neighborhood is not the same as it was back in the 70s – 80s.
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- Patti Smith was one of the famous people that started her career in East Village.
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- The East Village has been recently adding a ot of Japanese culture, mostly within St Marks. Some people even call it to be the closest thing to a “Little Tokyo”. Even though this is just something recent that has been going on in the area.
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- The East Village has a large amount of Tattoos and piercings shops. As we all know, the East Village was well known for the punk and rock n roll culture.
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- A wall in the East Village, featuring a mural of two men. I love this picture, it toally shows the feel in the East Village back in que 1990s. People used to be more grungy and followers of the punk culture.
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- Photograph of St. Nicholas with parts of Second Street visible. The church and almost all buildings on the street were demolished in the 1960s and replaced with parking lots. Image and Info from The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to …, Volume 3 By Catholic editing company, New York : http://books.google.com/books?id=KL4YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA353&lpg=PA353&dq=John+Nepomucene+Neumann+Raffeiner&source=bl&ots=EuPAumtFbV&sig=WugLWpK5uj5zqwc_ysRr9qb_GO0&hl=en&ei=DIXSS9bjMJDK9gT7y5XEDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=John%20Nepomucene%20Neumann%20Raffeiner&f=false
Who were the first people to live in East Village?
The East Village was originally a farm owned by Dutch Governor-General Wouter van Twiller. Peter Stuyvesant bought the farm in 1651, and stayed in the family for a few generations.
When did East Village adopted the name of East Village?
in the 1960s the neighborhood took the name of East Village after the neighborhood got new habitants (musicians, Hippies and artist) that wanted to separate the area from the ghetto image the Lower East side.
Why were people initially attracted to East Village?
People were attracted to East Village because of the cheap rent in the area.
When and why did gentrification happen in this area?
Artists move to the area and the neighborhood becomes “it” it gets popular, rent raises. The original people that lived in the neighborhood need to move out and people with more money move in.
What is the artistic background of this neighborhood?
Andy Warhol presented a series of shows. Club 57 was an important art started place for for performance art and visual art in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The East Village art gallery scene helped to motivate a new post-modern art in America; showing artists like Kiki Smith, Peter Halley, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Stephen Lack, Greer Lankton, Joseph Nechvatal, Jim Radakovich, Nan Goldin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger, Jeff Koons, Kevin Larmee, and Dave Vulcan.