New York

Video: A hundred stops on the New York subway in just two minutes
Culture

Video: A hundred stops on the New York subway in just two minutes

Watch it on your way to work — Stations is a two-minute short chronicling the wonder of the New York commute.

Written by: Adam White

Clayton Patterson’s battle to save NYC’s alternative culture
Culture

Clayton Patterson’s battle to save NYC’s alternative culture

Last days on the Lower East Side — The rebel photographer on how New York City lost its way.

Written by: Alex King

Clayton Patterson raises the ghosts of the Lower East Side’s anarchic past
Art

Clayton Patterson raises the ghosts of the Lower East Side’s anarchic past

Outlaw art — Patterson’s Outside In retrospective at Howl Arts bridges back to the grassroots creativity of pre-gentrification NYC.

Written by: Alex King

Join the 33,000 artists in the mammoth Sketchbook Project
Art

Join the 33,000 artists in the mammoth Sketchbook Project

Crowdfunded, open source art — The Sketchbook Project is an open-submission collection of work from 33,000 artists, housed at the Brooklyn Art Library. Fill in a sketchbook and take part in one of the largest public art projects in the world.

Written by: George Kafka

Step into the world's smallest museum
Film

Step into the world's smallest museum

Prison tattoo guns, Fake IDs and bullet-proof backpacks — New York City’s Mmuseumm helps visitors make sense of the madness of modern society through its curated selection of cultural ephemera.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Are New York’s eccentric street characters being pushed out?
Top Picks

Are New York’s eccentric street characters being pushed out?

Save NYC street culture — Filmmaker Nicolas Heller’s No Your City web series celebrates the city’s larger than life characters, who are being threatened by ongoing gentrification of the Big Apple.

Written by: Alex King

New Yorkers are fighting to save the soul of their city
Reportage

New Yorkers are fighting to save the soul of their city

Stop NYC eating its children — Gentrification is suffocating New York’s creative culture. We spoke to #SaveNYC campaign founder Jeremiah Moss to find out why it’s time to fight back.

Written by: Alex King

Is New York still a city of dreams?
Opinion

Is New York still a city of dreams?

No more rags to riches — Writer Alan Kaufman and artist Clayton Patterson discuss how their personal journeys of social advancement and creative expression no longer seem possible in today’s NYC.

Written by: Alex King

Former DNA drummer Ikue Mori on life after No Wave
My Life in Music

Former DNA drummer Ikue Mori on life after No Wave

Beyond noise — As Kim Gordon released her memoir Girl in a Band, we unearth this piece from her’s and Bill Nace’s curated section in Huck 42 - The Improv Issue. Tokyo-transplant Ikue Mori surfed the rise of No Wave on New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1970s and continues to push at the boundaries of improvised music to this day.

Written by: Michael Fordham

Celebrating 45 years of music soulvation at The Loft, NYC
Top Picks

Celebrating 45 years of music soulvation at The Loft, NYC

Love Saves The Day — A selection of tracks drawn straight from the floorboards of modern dance culture’s Mecca.

Written by: Gabriela Helfet

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