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The New York-Is-Dead Talk Was a Parable of Human Arrogance Esquire 5 hrs ago Jack Holmes © Victor J. Blue - Getty Images We seem to have some primal need to feel like we're present for the End Times, maybe because it makes us feel important. Ada Calhoun's St. Marks Is Deadtells the story of St. Marks Place in Manhattan's East Village, which went from part of Peter Stuyvesant's farm to a hub of new-immigrant life to a kaleidoscopic catalyst for the Beat Generation and the psychedelic counterculture that followed. Along the way, Calhoun traces how every generation consider...

Ada Calhoun's St. Marks Is Deadtells the story of St. Marks Place in Manhattan's East Village, which went from part of Peter Stuyvesant's farm to a hub of new-immigrant life to a kaleidoscopic catalyst for the Beat Generation and the psychedelic counterculture that followed. Along the way, Calhoun traces how every generation considered each change in the neighborhood to be the death of St. Marks Place. Because St. Marks was, for many years, the beating heart of eccentric, omnificent New York, it might as well have been the death of the city itself. It was dead when Andy Warhol's Electric Cir...