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The Summer of Love: 1967 on The B Rioting and Murder: How what happened on B helped bring America's peace and love era to a violent
bscenezine.com bscenezine@gmail.com @bscenezine Editor: Fucking Scott Photo: Daryl Ann Saunders Writer: Ron Herczig Writer: ABE Writer: Melissa Ditmore Video: Simeon Rose Art: @Ink and Metal Design Legal: Special K Marketing: Jake Henso Writer: Marquez "Quez" Woods Haikustrology by Ron Herczig Cancer Waxing and waning Mercurial you are, yes Now's time to confess BSceneTeam PAY UP $5: VENMO @SCOTTO777 Cover photo: Loren Bliss, Back Cover: Marcel Feve Summer of Love? The photo at right, provided by former EV photographer Loren Bliss, may be the only known record of the Extra put out by the East Village Other on June 3, 1967, in the wake of a riot in TSP that left hippies beaten and jailed. It was the kick-off to a summer that had its groovy moments, like when the Grateful Dead played a free show in the park. But, looking back after 55 years, it seems there was more unease and violence than there was peace and love. There was tension between the local population of Ukrainians and Puerto Ricans and the hordes of young hippies that were arriving in droves. The Summer of Love ended with a pair of ghastly murders on The B that signaled the beginning of the end of hippie America.
She has had solo shows at Interchurch Center in Upper Manhattan and Spoke the Hub in Brooklyn. Her art is on sale at Bergdorf Goodman in Midtown.
Delphine Le Goff is an East Village-based artist whose engaging sketches of New York City streetscapes are currently showing at All the King's Horses, 521 E 12th St. The B figures prominently in her work, though she has sketched across the city.
Delphine is also the co-owner of art and vintage store 3rd & B'zaar, 191 East 3rd St, with Maegan Hayward and Sara Rutherford. She loves finding beauty in the ugly. Her favorite things to sketch are garbage cans and homeless shopping carts.
The Sketchy Delphine Le Goff
Solo Show: Opens 9/17, 6 PM Howl Happening, 250 Bowery
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I've been a photographer since High School, which was a long time ago. I've photographed rock stars and presidents, performance art and stationary art, writers and publishers, CEOs and sailors. I currently do weekly articles for the Villager / AM New York, concentrating on the land below 14th St, which brings me in touch with some of the most interesting people anywhere. When I'm not shooting portraits or concerts or parades, I relax by taking more pictures. I've been posting my abstract city views daily on Instagram for over six years at @bobkrasner. They represent jaunts all over the city, Brooklyn and occasionally Queens. Sometimes I even get out of town. The images here are all in the East Village, where I live off Avenue B. There's another Instagram page@bobkrasnertoo - where some of my more interesting "people" shots can be found.
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How an Unspeakably Violent Rape and Murder
1967: A Summer of Love?
Cops haul away a hippie from TSP after noise complaints turned violent. The complaints came from local residents angered that their neighborhood was suddenly taken over by hordes of young people.
The naked bodies of Linda Fitzpatrick, left, and James "Groovy" Hutchinson, right, were found in an Ave. B basement, their skulls crushed with a brick, in the fall of 1967. They had been lured to their deaths with the promise of drugs. Two men pleaded guilty to the killings, both died in prison.
It was the Summer of Love, 1967, and hippies, runaways, and other starry-eyed stoners were flocking to the East Village under the banner of peace and love. And while the hippie ethos was being played out peacefully in other places, it was anything but along Ave. B. That long-ago summer was bookended by a Memorial Day riot in Tompkins Square Park that left hippies bloodied and jailed and the gruesome murder of two flower children who were bludgeoned to death in the basement boiler room of a tenement at 169 Ave. B at summer's end. The murders claimed the lives of 18-year-old Linda Fitzpatrick, the runaway daughter of Greenwich, Conn., socialites, and 21-yearold James Hutchinson, a wanderer from Rhode Island who was known as "Groovy." The media attention the murders attracted, including a cover story in Newsweek and a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece in the New York Times, marked the beginning of the end of the peace and love era, two years before the Manson Murders and the deadly melee at Altamont sounded the death knell for hippie America.
In the EV, Not so Much Helped End the Peace and Love Era in America
In this photo by East Village Other photographer Loren Bliss a cop stands among the hippies. At the cop's shoulder is Groovy, months before his murder. Activist Abbie Hoffman is in the striped shirt in the lower left of the frame.
“It was a very interesting time to be young and living on Ave. B,” Bliss told B Scene Zine from his home in Eugene, Oregon. Some of the hippies, he said, were naive stoners and runaways who flocked to the neighborhood for the fun of it, like the hordes that overran Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. At the same time, he said, there were some people who were committed to making the East Village a better place and for a time they appeared to be succeeding.
“The Lower East Side at the time was just about the most contentedly diverse place I’ve ever seen. There was a real conscious effort being made at the time to break down racial divides and socioeconomic inequality,” he said. But all that ended with the bloody murders of Fitzpatrick and Groovy.
Loren Bliss is one of the people who was there in 1967. He lived at 42 Ave. B, above the current site of the Main Event between 3rd and 4th Streets. A photographer for the neighborhood newspaper The East Village Other, Bliss took photographs of many events during that summer including those of the Memorial Day riot and one of the only known photographs of Groovy in the months before his murder.
Bottom, a hippie leader addresses the crowd as cops move in. The Memorial Day riot kicked off the Summer of Love in the EV.
More photos by Bliss, who said he was in the park that day to take photos of friends.
When the violence broke out, he sent his girlfriend home with instructions to bring back every roll of film she could find. Top, police lead away a young woman during the melee.
The EV Groovy Murders in the National Media
"For the first time, perhaps, a single act of violence had put both the worlds of the 'straights' and the hippies up tight. On the littered stone floor of a boiler room in New York’s East Village hippieland, police this month discovered the nude and headbattered bodies of a pretty, upper-class drop out and a tattooed drifter known as 'Groovy.'” Oct. 30, 1967
-- Newsweek,
In today’s social climate it seems that we are all craving reconnection after being stuck inside for the last couple of years. This is amplified with the creative and artistic communities that often flourish with collaborative forces.
" C o m e a s y o u a r e — l e a v e m o r e i n s p i r e d . G u a r a n t e e d . ”
Photos by Nicco Quinto
Inspired by the early 1900s renaissance period in Montparnasse, jake henzo created soiree henzo to tackle this problem and ring in what he is labeling as the Renaissance of Reconnecting. soiree henzo are multimedia events combining visual art and music in physical spaces, places where people can come together in the flesh and really get to know each other and exchange big ideas. The events started in henzo’s apartment and quickly outgrew the space, moving to Lucky and then Revision Lounge (both staples on Ave B). The ultimate aim of soiree henzo is to leave individuals inspired and make these all-so-important connections in the community while building authentic culture that is true to our identities and shared experiences. Several artist collaborations have already been executed as a result. And countless friendships have been established. soiree henzo looks to continue growing its presence on Avenue B and beyond as it taps into the emerging artist community and starts experimenting with new programming. Learn more about the upcoming soiree by visiting soireehenzo.com or following @soiree henzo on Instagram.
Subterra Groove Bazaar (the Living Museum) is a free-flowing community gathering that brings together musicians, performers and artists of all kinds for impromptu jamming, dancing and unscripted acts of live art. We are a social club, community jam and cultural oasis. We strive to recapture the creativity and energy of New York’s LES underground movement of the 1990s, when all the basements were jammin’ and diverse influences came together to express themselves freely, interact, exchange ideas and create harmoniously in a safe sanctuary. The Bazaar is held regularly in collaboration with the Loisaida Center at 710 E. 9th St. Watch @subterra sound for details. P h o t o b y K e r r i L i n d s t r ö m Live painting by Abe
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Alejandro Epifanio Torres, director of the Loisaida Center at 710 East 9th Street, has a deep commitment to civic engagement, the preservation of Puerto Rican culture, arts, creativity, and social justice. Torres is a multifaceted artist with roots in San Juan and the LES, where he has lived since attending the School of Visual Arts.
Photo: Angus McIntyre
Some of the LES's living legends spoke recently at an event marking LES History month, orgsanised by La Sala de Pepe and Cooper Square Committee. Among them:
Chino Garcia was one of the five founders of Charas/El Bohio, the vibrant LES community arts and education center. He talked about Charas, which closed after a two-decade run in 1998, and newer events on May 25 at the Loisaida Legends
José “Pepe” Flores came to the LES from Puerto Rico at age 19 and got involved in affordable housing and education in the neighborhood, community gardens and public spaces. La Sala de Pepe (Pepe’s Room) at 73 Avenue C hosts Foto Espacio. Watch this space https://www.lasaladepepe.org/
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Herman Hewitt moved to the LES in his 20s and first got involved with Interfaith Adopt-aBuilding after his building on Forsyth Street faced eviction by the city. Today he heads a real estate company, manages affordable buildings and is on the board of The Lower East Side People's Mutual Housing Association.
By Melissa Ditmore de of the event at La Sala de Pepe.
Lyn Pentecost, a lifelong LES resident and founder of the LES Girls Club, well known for donning fabulous pink and red dresses for neighborhood parades. Pentecost’s newest gallery, Foto Espacio, housed at La Sala de Pepe, on Avenue C near 5th Street, is focused on supporting Latin American and indigenous photographers and celebrating the arts, culture and history of the Loisaida community.
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A nutty dominatrix, our mundane lady woohoo smoking a jolly joint. She cracks his fly and opens a can of joy. I loved, on the bench, her simple bag shaped like ax. I loved, on the couch, his blonde ax, a Gibson super 400. Hers, a cheap fetish; his, a solid construction with an engraved finger-rest— I fell in love. They play on a curb in Alphabet City. Her whip tickles manic cocks.
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BSceneZine Volume 1, Issue 9, August, 2022 Art by Delphine Le Goff Photos by Bob Krasner Subterra Groove Bazaar Poetry by Gena Gruz Partying at soiree henzo Ron Herzcig mixing summer drinks and tunes Melissa Ditmore on LES legends Loren Bliss, the EV photographer who was on the scene in 1967 I Quit quits Inside:
