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Eighty Years at St. Marks

Author: St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Altadena, Calif.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Altadena (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Eighty Years at St. Marks

Author: St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Altadena, Calif.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Altadena (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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St. Mark's Eighty-five Years, 1889-1974

Author: Betty T. Parry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39

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Reminiscences of Eighty Years

Author: John Urie
Publisher: Gale and the British Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

Author: Ada Calhoun
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249794
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street’s apex. 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. Marks is dead.” In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. 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. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community.