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Choking Victim - Tompkins Square Park 8-5-18
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Ian Jane
in MusicChoking Victim - Tompkins Square Park 8-5-18
Tompkins Square Park, located in the East Village in Manhattan, has long been a sight the locals associate with politics and activism. There were anti-war protests there in the sixties, and in the eighties it became a de facto homeless camp and was ripe with drug problems. In 1988, the cops came in and tried to oust the homeless that were living there. This resulted in a now fairly infamous riot, clips of which did wind up on newscasts around the New York City area. When it was a...
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Punk Island 2013
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MusicPunk Island 2013
For the last four years, as part of the Make Music NYC festival, Punk Island has been held on Governor's Island but this year, due to construction related to damage incurred by Hurricane Sandy, the event was moved to Pier 1 on Staten Island. So what's it all about? Over ninety bands on seven stages playing from 11am until 11pm set up in the park area and then stretching down the pier until you basically run out of land and hit ocean. Obviously it would be impossible for one person to see a... -
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in MusicPunk Island, 2011 - Governors Island, New York City
June 19th was the date of the fourth annual Punk Island festival, a free concert arranged in conjunction with Make Music NYC. For the fourth year in a row music fans crammed onto a ferry in lower Manhattan, trying to smuggle beer and pot past security guards for the five minute boat ride across the water to Governors Island, a former military installation now made into park land to watch various acts, local and otherwise, play on the makeshift dirt stages.
Organizationally things were...
