Episode 254: ‘It Was Very Easy to Survive, Except You Might Killed. (Probably Not.)’
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English - February 10, 2023 03:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsNews Society & Culture new york city Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Leonard Abrams, the founder and editor of the late, great East Village Eye (1979-1987) and Julie Golia, curator at the New York Public Library, which just acquired the paper’s archives, talk about chronicling, and preserving, the paper’s coverage of a time when “you go down to the Lower East Side [and] it’s very easy to survive except you might get killed—but probably not. So that was enough for a lot of people who really wanted… to do something meaningful with their lives. And they were able to.”
Leonard Abrams, the founder and editor of the late, great East Village Eye (1979-1987) and Julie Golia, curator at the New York Public Library, which just acquired the paper’s archives, talk about chronicling, and preserving, the paper’s coverage of a time when “you go down to the Lower East Side [and] it’s very easy to survive except you might get killed—but probably not. So that was enough for a lot of people who really wanted… to do something meaningful with their lives. And they were able to.”