Tompkins Square Park: January 1, 1994
The inauguration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, another sharp turning point toward
gentrification in New York. January 1, 1994
Although the anti-gentrification-movement still remained for several years, it lost its strong grassroots momentum, especially after Rudy Giuliani took the mayoral office. Twenty years after the August 6 riot, the park now boasts one of the best dog runs in New York City; the Lower East Side has lost much of its diversity and become one of the city’s most expensive, themepark-like entertainment districts.
(by Q. Sakamaki, from Tompkins Square Park, powerHouse Books)
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My favorite part of the riot was when two officers went to the trunk of a squad car pulled out a fire extinguisher and sprayed my self and other new school students photgraphing/documenting the police abuse. ;>
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