Today’s guest on the show is Clayton Patterson. Clayton is a documentarian, an artist, a historian and staple of the Lower East Side. In this episode we talk about how to survive as an artist, the Clayton Cap, the 80s, the forgotten ones, citizen surveillance, documenting history and the Tompkins Square Park police riots.

This conversation was recorded at the Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum in the heart of the Lower East Side.

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Show Notes

• Clayton Patterson Documentarian, Artist, Historian & Lower East Side Resident
• Clayton Patterson Website 
• Lower East Side
• 161 Essex
• Clayton Camps
• Clayton Archive, Outlaw Art Museum & Gallery
• You have to survive as an artist.
• SoHo in the 80’s How New York’s Art Scene In The ‘80s Made NYC What It Is Today
• Mr. Chow’s NYC 57^th Street
• Richard Brown Baker
• Bowery & Broome
• “The game is always not to work.” Clayton Patterson
• What is the Clayton Cap?
• Clayton Patterson Brings Back the Clayton Cap With a Little Help From His Friends– Sept. 12, 2016 by daniel maurer
• The cap as a canvas.
• The Savage Skulls
• The Garment District, Manhattan
• Ed Koch former Mayor of New York City from 1978-1989
• Interviewing takes you places you never imagine you’d go.
• “I am art, and what I do is art” Clayton Patterson Quote
• Latin Kings
• Posses and Crews
• BBB Bruce Street Bad Boys
• PS20 The Anna Silver School
• Front Door Book by Clayton Patterson
• The art of giving fame.
• You have to say what? P*ssy (Timestamp 11:05)
• Create community rather create controversy (in today’s terms-Clayton did want no smoke)
• Street Gangs of The Lower East Side  preview by Clayton Patterson
• Dizzy Gillespie & Harlem
• Mick Jagger
• Satin Sinner Nomads Gangs of the East Village: Life as a Satan’s Sinners Nomad by laura edwins and nadja popovich
• Jose “Cochise” Quiles YouTube Original air date 5-12-16
• Taji’s Mahal – Satan’s Sinners Nomads’ Cochise (VICE article)
• Afrika Bambaataa
• Black Panther Party
• Arturo Vega
• Arturo Vega, Ramones Logo Designer, Dead at 65– Graphic artist was a source of support in the band’s early years -by erin coulehan (RollingStone Article-June 10, 2013)
• Howl Gallery
• Empire Closing Party The Last Interview Screening of Amon Focus’ Arturo Vega, the Last Interview, 2013
• Hip Hop Slides and Movies Talk by Wild Style Director Charlie Ahearn with Jane Dickson
• John Ahearn Artist
• Leading as humans
• Form of magic in the forgotten ones
• The top and the bottom are often similarities
• Punk 
• Hardcore Punk Bands
• Hardcore punk
• The responsibility of recording history.
• Police Riots Tompkins Square Park (1988)
• Documenting the Tompkins Square riot of ’88 by clayton patterson (The Villager Article- August 6, 1988)
• May 1968 events in France
• Pablo Escobar – Crime Boss
• John Gotti – Crime Boss
• Nicky Barnes – Mr. Untouchable
• Don’t antagonize the dog behind the gate.
• “Fame has its assets attached to it.” Clayton Patterson Quote
• One Percent Motorcycle Club
• The Long, Vital History of Bystander Recordings by emily raboteau (The New Yorker Article – August 11, 2016) 
• LA2 – Artist
• Keith Haring – Artist
• Jeffrey Deitch
• Whitney Museum of Art 
• Jerry Saltz – Art Critic
• “We deserve the truth behind our history.” Clayton Patterson Quote
• The Radiant Baby by keith haring
• Barking Dog by keith haring
• Three Eyed Television by keith haring
• Keith Haring Political Line Symbols
• Provenance
• Museum City of New York
• How can you tell the difference between collaboration between Keith Haring and LA2, or just a LA2 or just a Keith Haring? Class is in session. 
• Picasso Cubism
• George Braque– Artist
• Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso
• How Beyoncé and photographer Tyler Mitchell made history with her Vogue cover– It’s the first time in the magazine’s 126-year existence that a black photographer shot the cover- by alex abad-santos Aug 6, 2018 (Vox Article)
• Tyler Mitchell – Photographer
• Tyler Mitchell: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
• 8^th Street Shul
• JEWS: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE by Clayton Patterson (book)
• Mashugana
• TRON Graffiti Artist
• No documentation then it didn’t exist.
• Troy and Kevin Harris
• “Little Brother is Watching Big Brother” Clayton Patterson
• The Democratization of the News
• Captured by Clayton Patterson (Trailor)
• The importance of a camera
• Special Guest @CharlesAllBlue (IG)
• Supreme
• OverLook designed by Ali the Creator
• Only The Wise Streetwear brand
• The 7’s on Clayton Patterson’s door
• Worthy questions to ponder
• New York Nico
• Overthrow Video
• Daniel B. Levin Director, Producer, Cinematographer
• Mark Benjamin, Documentary Filmmaker
• Preserving the history and passing it on.
• Showing up and doing it!
• Agosto Machado Performer  (Nightlife Icon Agosto Machado Talks La MaMa, Good Luck and His Anderson Cooper Fantasies by michael musto  June 2017 Paper Article)
• The system as always a step ahead.
• What really gentrified downtown NYC?
• Ai Wewei Artist
• Spike Lee American Film Director
• The Oprah Effect
• Want to Watch the Episode of Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown with Clayton Patterson appearing?
• Here’s the details : ‘Lower East Side (November 11 special extended episode 9pm-10:15pm ET) Bourdain takes a personal journey through this formerly bohemian New York City neighborhood, as he meets, shares meals and reflects with music, film and art trailblazers including Richard Hell, Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, Lydia Lunch, Fab 5 Freddy, Danny Fields, Amos Poe, Jim Jarmusch, Kembra Pfahler, John Lurie, Clayton Patterson and Harley Flanagan, whose collective cultural  impact in the 1970’s and ’80’s has sustained through the decades.’
• The moments of enlightenment and change
• Clayton Patterson and the History of Tattooing in NYC by taji ameen a Vice Article March 2013
• The desire to documenting and preserving culture
• “The Lower East Side used to represent authenticity.” Clayton Patterson Quote
• Silver Monuments Works Inc.
• Russ & Daughters
• Katz’s Delicatessen
• Economy Candy 
• Jim Power aka Mosaic Man
• Tompkins Square Park Riots
• 30th anniversary of Tompkins Square Park riot: ‘It was a battle we had to fight‘ by michael ccotto  |  August 7, 2018 @2:23 PM Spectrum News NY1 Manhattan
• Mollen Commission
• David Dinkins – 106^th Mayor of New York City
• William Bratton
• Michael Bloomberg – 108^th Mayor of New York City
• The Forgotten Ones
• The Bowery
• CBGB
• The Pyramid Club
• The Sunshine Theatre
• Pulp Fiction $5 Shake
• The Pop Up Culture
• Always being alert
• The Everly Brothers
• The Beattles
• The Wave
• When everyone loves you.
• “Be in it for the love, the experience and the passion” Clayton Patterson Quote

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Today’s guest on the show is Tiger Hood also known as Patrick Barr.

This episode happened because my train decided to take a detour and out of my utter frustration I decided to get out and just walk home. If you’ve ever ridden the Subway in New York on the weekend then you full understand my frustration.

On this summer hike to the Lower East Side I ran into my friend Tiger Hood. Now I’ve known Tiger for some years now. If you don’t know Tiger Hood, he is famous for his photography and the type of golf he likes to play. His game is street golf. Tiger upcycles used milk containers by wrapping them with tape and hitting them with a golf club toward a box in the distance. Sometimes he puts the box up the block and sometimes it’s across the street, it all just depends what he deems the safest placement for that street. Some People even collect his taped up milk containers.

The first time I saw his photography it stopped me in my tracks. He had taken a photo in Key West of a Rooster eating out of a KFC box and I thought it was funny.

For years I’d been wanting interview Tiger and stars stars finally aligned.

Enjoy,
Amon

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Show Notes

1. Follow Tiger Hood on Instagram
2. SoHo
3. Minetta Lane
4. Plinko
5. Key West
6. Cadet Corps
7. Photo Journalist
8. 50 Years in New York
9. It’s the contact that matters
10. Social butterfly
11. Having fun but taking it Serious
12. ABC – Always Be Careful
13. Eldridge Cleaver
14. New York Nico
15. Christopher Marks
16. The Love of the English Language
17. Poetry
18. Graffiti Writer: Cliff
19. Level Up
20. Apple rolled down the hill
21. Mental blinders, people don’t look
22. Real bad boys move in silence
23. Don’t hate showoffs
24. Ugly people bring the beauty to the world
25. Dress smart
26. Paul Mccartney
27. Blue Note
28. Street Photography
29. Take your picture first then ask
30. Put your tailgate up
31. Are you a comedian
32. Shanna Christmas
33. Called racist
34. Comedy Cellar
35. Shop by circular
36. Top Golf Driving Range
37. Played Volleyball
38. Fuck golf
39. Dance in the club
40. A pretty good judge of character
41. Always on the Honey Hunt
42. Nappy Gilmore
43. Most important lesson? I haven’t learned it yet.
44. People never appreciate feeling normal until we are sick or injured
45. Bastardized the sport of golf
46. Amy Schumer
47. Quala the Weirdo
48. Golf Obsession
49. Golf Digest
50. ESPN 30 for 30
51. Bringing the Life out of the City

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Today’s guest on the show is Jeremiah Moss, author of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul. We met up in Tompkins Square park to talk about the suburbanization of New York, the importance of policy, monoculture, Jane Jacobs, eminent domain, the impact of the High Line, Coney Island, neoliberalism, poor doors, colonial myopia and hyper-gentrification. I think it is safe to say that you should listen to this episode, twice. Enjoy.

Learn More

1. Jeremiah Moss Author of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul(publisher Harper Collins)
2. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
3. Paperback coming out on July 24th
4. Vanishing New York Blog by Jeremiah Moss

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Show Notes

• Twitter: @jeremoss
• Facebook
• How did we get here?
• How did NYC lose it Soul?
• What is NY Soul?
• The Secret Movie
• Al Diaz New York Said Episode
• The Museum of the City of New York
• New York is feeling less like New York.
• What do you miss about New York?
• Do you want to be a New Yorker?
• The suburbanization of New York
• Why do you want to change New York?
• Chain stores are not home or soul?
• East Village, Manhattan
• Tompkins Square Park
• Tompkins Square Park riot (1988)
• Streets of New York – North Tompkins- Just another NYU Journalism Projects Sites site
  Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988
• What is left to love about New York?
• Affordable Rent
• Police State
• Mayor Rudy Giuliani
• Missing the local places
• Random acts of violence
• “Anything can happen…” old New York
• Guardian Angels
• Who is Mad Max?
• African American Migration from Jim Crow South
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – by Isabel Wilkerson(A TED Talk by the Author)
• Community is absent
• Let’s take care of each other; there is a personal responsibility to each other when you are a New Yorker
• The Sidewalk Experience
• The Importance of Policy
• The city is always changing, let’s evaluate that assumption and not be lazy as to why
• Bushwick, Brooklyn
• The G-word: Gentrification gen·tri·fi·ca·tion (noun)
• 1. the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class  taste.
• 2. the process of making a person or activity more refined or polite.
• The monoculture
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities – by Jane Jacobs
• 5 Things in NYC We Can Blame on Robert Moses by Phillipe Martin Chatelain
• What makes a healthy City?
• Business Improvement Districts (BID)
• Property Owners Spend on Quality of Life (But Is That Fair?) NYTimes Article on BIDs
• What is ‘Eminent Domain’
  Eminent domain is the power the United States government, states and municipalities to take private property for public use, following the payment of just compensation.
• The Iron Triangle ( A documentary)
• Willets Point, Queens (aka The Iron Triangle)
• Atlantic Yards
• State looks to seize properties in the path of Pacific Park
• Brooklyn’s Barclays Center is an Eminent Domain-Created Failure Hit & Run Blog by Anthony Fisher
• The High Line
• 1999 Friends of the High Line is founded by Joshua David and Robert Hammond, residents of the High Line neighborhood, to advocate for the High Line’s preservation and reuse as public open space.
• What are catalysts for hyper-gentrification?
• Air Rights Transfers
• Special West Chelsea Rezoning District
• Columbus Circle
• Sanitized Vertical Suburbia
• “We need cities where difference can co-exist with difference.” Jeremiah Moss Quote
• “You need dirt for things to grow.” Jeremiah Moss Quote
• Manufactured Experience – GMO Experience
• Demolition Man (film)
• Coney Island
• Fred Trump Real Estate Developer
• Horace Bullard Real Estate Developer
• “The mugging of a city, this city is being robbed by greed… at the expense of culture.” Amon Focus
• Nostalgie De La Boue – Yearning for the mud in French
• Why do we seem to like to destroy things in the middle of the night?
• Harlem’s legendary Lenox Lounge is being demolished: The site is rumored to give way to a massive Sephora By Ameena Walker
• Big bank takes little bank
• Progressive
• Neoliberalism
• Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world The Guardian.com by Stephen Metcalf
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Historic Win and the Future of the Democratic Party
  Come November, Ocasio-Cortez is almost certain to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Will her democratic-socialist identity push the Party to the left? The New Yorker ByDavid Remnick
• The important fight
• Change that needs to happen on a global scale
• What can we do?
• a. Become conscious
• b. Talk to each other and challenge ignorance of issues
• c. Elect politicians that are not taking money from corporations and real estate developers
• d. Support policies like the Small Business Jobs Survival Act
• e. Commercial Rent Control
• f. Affordable housing not tied to big development
• g. Support Vacancy Tax
• What the heck are poor doors? (you don’t even want to know)
• Whenever there is a discussion on Urban Development ask yourself 3 questions:
• 1. Who is it for?
• 2. Who does it attract?
• 3. Who does it displace?
• Trees, bikes, and Wi-Fi
• What is your intention?
• Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
• Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
• Colonial Myopia
• A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and The Search for Authenticity by Japonica Brown-Saracino
• Madison Square Park
• Cultural Capital vs. Financial Capital
• Anywhere USA
• Mon-culture wants to turn everything into itself
• Good place to get a meal in New York:
• 1. Julius Restaurant
• 2. Donohue’s Steak House
• 3. Margon New York

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