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>> 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 it's 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: that's encouraging. >> freddy: which is great, it's great. ♪ >> anthony: you brought hip-hop culture to a very finite number of people initially on the lower east side. totally changed the world. ♪ >> freddy: teenagers...

Because you can't pull yourselves up by the bootstraps anymore, because you can't 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 they're empty. >> anthony: i live in one of those big empty buildings, with absentee owners. is that all that's going to be left in new york. >> clayton: yes. new york -- there was always something that brought it back. but once you fill it with the corporate world, it's never going ...

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 essentially become clogged with nodding junkies, homeless people who set up permanent camps. >> clayton: it ...

>> danny: people ask, "what was it like the first time you saw iggy?" and i didn't 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 didn't like it. >> danny: the ramones met because they were four outcasts in a high school with 5,000 people who liked funhouse. okay. they had it all figured out. they would sell as many records as the great r...

>> 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 didn't live in this building? >> harley: no, this wasn't 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 you'd find a door in the street, you'd put it up and chain it up yourself. no running water. i used to bathe in the fire hydrant in front of the building. i used to sleep with my p...