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The case of ‘The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park’

February 2, 2012 2 Comments

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | By the end of the 1980s the Lower East Side felt like it had suffered more than its fair share of failed government politics. The homeless crisis was reaching a critical mass. In 1990 there were 70,000 to 80,000 homeless in New York, and 250,000 people were at risk of losing read more here »

Finding Ira Cohen: On the trail of a mystic art icon

January 26, 2012 No Comment

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | In the mid-1980s I discovered a very active and vital Lower East Side independent underground film scene. In 1985, Leslie Lowe and Jack Waters, both filmmakers, produced a screening series called “Naked Eye Cinema” that concentrated on showing these far-out filmmakers. “Naked Eye Cinema”’s home base was ABC No Rio. I read more here »

Videotaping ’88 park riot turned me into an activist

January 5, 2012 No Comment

By CLAYTON PATTERSON | Up until Aug. 6 to 7, 1988, my main focus was making art, Clayton Caps and documenting different Lower East Side cultural scenes and people who interested me. The night of Aug 6. into the morning of Aug. 7 dramatically shifted the direction of my concentration and my life. The 3-hour-33-minute read more here »

Clayton: Hole lot of Love at Lola Schnabel show on Bowery

December 29, 2011 1 Comment

[media-credit name=”Photos by Clayton Patterson” align=”aligncenter” width=”600″][/media-credit]“Love Before Intimacy,” Lola Montes Schnabel’s art show, had its opening at the Hole Gallery, at 312 Bowery, on Fri., Dec. 16. Her figurative paintings are expressionistic and romantic. It’s no secret where the 30-year-old Cooper Union graduate gets her artistic talent. Her father is Julian Schnabel, the painter read more here »

Metal masters give Wildstyle a thorough thrashing

December 22, 2011 No Comment

[media-credit name=”Photos by Clayton Patterson” align=”aligncenter” width=”600″][/media-credit] Megadeath, top, and Slayer, bottom, blew away the tattoo heads at the Wildstyle show in Vienna, Austria, last month. Thrash-metal veterans, these rockers have honed their blistering guitar riffs — as well as their menacing stage stances.

Bring production back home

December 15, 2011 2 Comments

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | John Ottaviano, I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my column (“Going overseas was the only option for our company,” talking point, by John Ottaviano, Dec. 8). First, I want to state that I have a great respect for Milton Somberg, who founded and built Rothco company. I strongly read more here »

CLAYTON: Bonfires to band shell: Occupying East Village style

December 1, 2011 No Comment

[media-credit name=”Photos by Clayton Patterson ” align=”aligncenter” width=”600″][/media-credit]The idea of “occupy,” as in Occupy Wall Street, might seem like a new one. But in the 1990s, the East Village and Lower East Side saw the continuation of an ongoing fight over who would “occupy” the neighborhood — radicals and squatters or housing development groups and read more here »

Colorful L.E.S. characters are ready and waiting for crayons

November 24, 2011 1 Comment

By DAVID AUSTIN | Representing the ultimate correlation between hard work and hard fun, and bridging the gap between youth and age, “Legends Of The Lower East Side” seeks to highlight both the diversity of the neighborhood as well as the multifaceted and truly timeless characters that dot the streets between 14th St. and the read more here »

A question for Donald Trump

November 22, 2011 2 Comments

[media-credit name=”Photo by Clayton Patterson ” align=”aligncenter” width=”600″][/media-credit] An American military-style uniform made in China on sale in an army/navy store in Vienna, Austria. By CLAYTON PATTERSON | A question to Donald Trump since he is presidential material and does business in our part of New York City. First, let’s agree that we differ in opinion about read more here »