Tompkins Square Park: June 3, 1991
The NYPD prepares to confront protesters on Avenue B. June 3, 1991
The August 6 police riot—so called because the consensus was that the police overreacted to the protestors—and subsequent Tompkins Square riots were the manifestation of a larger concern of the overgentrification of the Lower East Side.
(by Q. Sakamaki, from Tompkins Square Park, powerHouse Books)
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