August 9, 2008
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The Tompkins Square Park Riots. It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since the police — and the city that employs them — began their methodical takedown of the Lower East Side. (In spite of what your real estate agent told you, no one called it the “East Village” back in 1988.) Photographer Q. Sakamaki has published a commemorative book on the riots and their aftermath, but if you can’t wait, Gothamist has a preview.

The Tompkins Square Park Riots.

It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since the police — and the city that employs them — began their methodical takedown of the Lower East Side. (In spite of what your real estate agent told you, no one called it the “East Village” back in 1988.) Photographer Q. Sakamaki has published a commemorative book on the riots and their aftermath, but if you can’t wait, Gothamist has a preview.