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This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community..
Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants\' haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kids--but it has always been a place that outsiders call home.
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Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W.
In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St.
Marks is dead.
This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the Many layered history of the street--from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant\'s pear orchard to today\'s hipster playground--organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared St.
But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street\'s apex.
Here Frank O\'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed.
Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements.
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