Tompkins Square Park Riot



Locations

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1984/00/00 A New York Magazine cover article about gentrification, "The Lower East Side: There Goes the Neighborhood," describes the Christodora as a "clunky old" building "surrounded by burned-out buildings that crawled with pushers and junkies." Christodora House, New York City
1984/00/00 A New York Magazine cover article about gentrification, "The Lower East Side: There Goes the Neighborhood," describes the Christodora as a "clunky old" building "surrounded by burned-out buildings that crawled with pushers and junkies." Alphabet City,
1988/08/07 Rioters chanting "Die Yuppie Scum" in reference to the supposed "yuppie scum" residents in Christodora House, heave a police barricade through the glass front doors and ransacked the lobby. Christodora House, New York City
1988/08/07 "It was horrific for me, to walk outside and have people yell: 'Pig! Yuppie scum!'. I wanted to say, 'I'm no yuppie, I'm broke!' My phone was turned off." Jerry Saltz, art critic for New York Magazine, lived in a 10th-floor apartment at the time. Christodora House, New York City

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