St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

by Ada Calhoun

Book Overview

St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street--from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's pear orchard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039324038X
• ISBN13: 9780393240382
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"