Tompkins Square Park

By Bill Weinberg

Documents the resistance and struggle of people in the Lower East Side to exist as a community when faced with drastic gentrification in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses on the park as a symbol and stronghold of the anti-gentrification movement, as riots proved a trigger to radicalise political movement. Living near the park, Q. Sakamaki witnessed the unravelling events that created one of New York's political movements, which he has captured in b/w photography.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576874516
• ISBN13: 9781576874516
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.2"