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 at that time were doing something interesting so i wanted to find some people that would listen to these ideas, and that s what led
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 back. so we turned a corner that we will never go back again. so it s over. anthony: it s over. clayton: it s over.
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 was dangerous. anthony: it was genuinely dangerous. when the police came down and decided to clean the park, the question is, who won? clayton: well, in the beginning, we did. it s our [ bleep ] park. it s our [ bleep ] park. it s our [ bleep ] park! clayton: you know you have to remember in 1988 they couldn t
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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 record sellers would sell. and in a few years they would have so much money that they would retire and never have to work again. anthony: right, especially with each other. danny: guess what? they had to stay on the road for another anthony: 25 years. danny: yeah. you know what their greatest