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Newsstand, East 79th Street (1988) Graffiti Wall, First Avenue (1984)
East 79th Street was the southern boundary of my world. Disco was still hot. Graffiti descended on the city in the 80s, covering vacant walls, the subways,
The Village Voice was still around. Tom Cruise had just entered our collective everything. Or so it seemed. In retrospect one can see that at its best it could
iconography. So had Glenn Close. And Mel Gibson. And Care Otis. Ah yes, also be an art form, although most New Yorkers found it hard to appreciate at
whatever happened to Care Otis? the time.
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