New York Times Architecture Critic Michael Kimmelman Takes a Virtual Walking Tour of the East Village and Chats about Its History with Luc Sante
“For me, puberty was rock ’n’ roll and Ginsberg’s ‘Howl,’ and the Lower East Side was the logical place to find that culture,” says Sante whose new collection, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, explores his experiences living and working in the Lower East Side. “When I arrived in the neighborhood, the contrast was palpable between newfangled hippie businesses, which had only been going on for five years at the most, and the older, working class businesses. You had hippie boutiques side by side with Ukrainian social clubs and Polish pork stores. . . . I lived in an apartment between First Avenue and Avenue A, across the street from a Polish bar with a jukebox heavily laden with Bobby Vinton.”
Post Date: 10-21-2020
Post Date: 10-21-2020