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Close a 10 1/2-acre square park on the lower east side. not with 450 riot cops, horses, helicopters. they couldnt do it. >> clayton: there were big bonfires on the middle of avenue a, buses couldnt come down, cars couldnt come down, they were stuck. >> anthony: you were on the news a lot, i remember, you were the most despised man in -- nypd, you were not their favorite photographer, lets put it that way. ♪ >> clayton: this went on for four years. there were multiple riots, hundreds of arrests...

Been on tour from october to next october? im not stopping. >> anthony: youth? would you want to go through that again? or was that overrated? >> lydia: youth? dont i look good for my age? >> anthony: hell yeah. >> lydia: well, what do you want from me?

You tonight, my dear. when was the last time you had something this good in your mouth? i know you eat well, but this is like -- >> anthony: its been awhile. this is pretty incredible. >> anthony: you were featured prominently in many of the best known films of the era. >> lydia: most of which sucked. it was trying to be a reflection of the reality at the time. hence is why i made the films i made, especially with richard kern. >> lydia: just drop me off. where are you taking me anyway? >> man: ...

And i remember theyd be hanging out on the stoop on the church across the street, smoking dust. all of them with their golf clubs and 007 knives. everybody would be listening to, of all things, kraftwerk, theyd be out there screaming, "were going to kill the next [ bleep ] that comes out of that building." and im laying there, thinking “i gotta go to school tomorrow, man.” i was never a violent person. christ, i was raised by hippies. but i was thrown into a crazy environment where i had no ...

Which not many people think about now, but yeah, we did well. >> anthony: youve got to love that moment of corporate terror in the film industry when people are looking at the weekend grosses, and its like, "what is this? who is this audience that did not appear in our metrics?" >> freddy: no, it was a great, great experience. detergent alone, cant.% oa

>> freddy: this is one of the places, like keith haring and i would love to come here. jean-michel would join us, and we would have good meals here on the regular. and it was consistently the exa -- you know its great when you could go someplace and they have the exact same food. come on, this is it. >> anthony: still the same? >> freddy: still exactly the same. >> anthony: thats encouraging. >> freddy: which is great, its great. ♪ >> anthony: you brought hip-hop culture to a very finite numbe...

Because you cant pull yourselves up by the bootstraps anymore, because you cant get in the game. gentrification has affected the whole city. you have to now make a huge amount of money to be here. you know they got skyscrapers in midtown that are sold millions of dollars apartments, and nobody lives in them. and theyre empty. >> anthony: i live in one of those big empty buildings, with absentee owners. is that all thats going to be left in new york. >> clayton: yes. new york -- there was always ...

Of the largest inner-city photograph collections of anybody. i used to know everybody that went by. that neighborhood thing is like really important to me. so i photographed the puerto ricans, the dominicans. drag queens from the pyramid club. basically the whole hardcore scene in 87. i was more interested in like the eccentric people, the unique people. >> anthony: you were at the battle of tompkins square park, which is sort of the gettysburg of the lower east side. i remember it had essential...

>> danny: people ask, "what was it like the first time you saw iggy?" and i didnt see him. i heard the music from down the hall. i mean, i thought, "this is the rock and roll i always wanted to hear." something that was this fierce, and yet there was a tune there. >> anthony: when i bought funhouse, in high school, i was immediately ostracized. this was defining music and normal people didnt like it. >> danny: the ramones met because they were four outcasts in a high school with 5,000 people who...

>> harley: so this is pretty much some of the last remnants of what the lower east side was kind of used to be like, you know? good old school, no elevator. >> anthony: but you didnt live in this building? >> harley: no, this wasnt the building i lived in. this is a squat though, that actually became legal. i was actually in that building right there. when i lived in it, we had no windows, no front doors. you know youd find a door in the street, youd put it up and chain it up yourself. no runnin...