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Posts Tagged: NYC

  • November 10, 2011

    Club Kids

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    httpv://youtu.be/cY0V4O7ErJ0

    You’re all dropouts. You have no focus in your life.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • October 2, 2011

    High School Illustrated

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Brooklyn Public Librarian Ben Gocker recently shared this series of drawings made by students at Manual Training High School for their literary-art publication, Prospect.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • September 19, 2011

    Supercute!: Lollipops & Marshmallows

    BY Isadora Schappell-Spillman

    Full disclosure: I have an ugly candy habit.

    FROM:Izzy Says

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  • August 9, 2011

    The Jokers

    BY Abigail Wilson

    In the spring of 1959 Bruce Davidson met a group of teenagers in Brooklyn who called themselves The Jokers.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • August 3, 2011

    Gangs of Brooklyn

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    “Crew [of teen gang members] is shown in jiffy wagon as they were transported to Adolescent Court.”

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • July 12, 2011

    Poolside Breakdown

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Back in 2003 before The Hills and The City, there was a one season wonder MTV show—Rich Girls.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • June 17, 2011

    Voices of East Harlem

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Power to the choir! Voices of East Harlem were an often, 20 member girl group ages ranging from 12 to 21, formed in the late 1970s.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • June 9, 2011

    Lo-Lifes

    BY Willa Nasatir

    Lo-lifes were a late eighties and early nineties New York gang movement with a cultish dedication to Polo by Ralph Lauren.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • June 1, 2011

    Sk8 NYC

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Shred zone! A flock of skaters float down the hilly sidewalks of Central Park to much the amusement and/or annoyance of passersby.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • May 31, 2011

    Teenage Drummer: Izzy Schappell-Spillman

    BY Matt Wolf

    I was recently at a tribute concert for the incredible Kathleen Hanna and my friends and I flipped out over Care Bears on Fire.

    FROM:Izzy Says

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