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Another St. Marks Place icon may have bitten the dust with word that DJ Lenny's Music Stand being shut down by the NYPD. The small stand has sat for over a dozen years on the corner of St. Marks Place and Third Avenue in between former punk club/cheap shots bar The Continental and what is now the restaurant Tahini, selling color-coded mixtapes and bumping hip-hop out onto the street throughout the night. Down by the Hipster reports that "several plain clothes officers confiscating all of Lenny's music and just about everything else from his small booth." The end of an era in the East Village seems to be (d)evolving rapidly in recent months with Kim's Video moving off of St. Mark's, toy store Love Saves the Day closing and the unclear status of the Holiday Cocktail Lounge.
St. Marks Hip-Hop Stand Shut Down by Cops
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Once again I'd like to give thanks to Mayor Mike.
thank you mayor mike.
you douchephuk
Ugh!
That's disgraceful and sad. What on earth were their reasons behind this? Is it really necessary to make a city full of increasingly desperate people wander down streets that are that much less interesting?
wtmf.
fuck, dj lenny has been there for much longer than 12 years. More like 20 years. I fucking HATE Bloomberg, Giuliani, and the gentrifiers.
what does giuliani and the gentrifiers have to do with anything? and for that matter bloomberg?
this guy survived for over a decade in a strongly policed area, and *all of a sudden* his shit gets taken away? you don't think that maybe he just couldn't afford to pay off the cops anymore?
but it's okay, just blame the gentrifiers. it's nice to have a scapegoat for everything.
Giuliani and Bloomberg have led the charge in harassing small businesses that they deemed unsavory as part of their "quality of life" campaigns. Bloomberg has said himself that he views Manhattan as a "luxury product" and people like DJ Lenny don't fit into his vision of what Manhattan should be. Fuck him, fuck Giuliani, and fuck the gentrifiers.
That's really sad.
I always assumed it was a front to sell herbal vices.
That place has been there as long as I can remember-- a lot more than 12 years.
I'm guessing they'll replace it with a miniature Starbucks, or maybe another ATM to augment the one next door.
I imagine that this is because of some misguided attempt at copyright enforcement...
i remember NYPD shutting down the booth back also in '98. It reopened in a few months. word on the street back then was dj lenny was selling weed along with the mixtapes.
True dat. Let's hope he can make it back and it won't be goggled up by Chipotle, Starbucks, Duane Reade, Chase or some other bland crap.
*gobbled
Oh well.
My heart goes out to the owners ..but before it gets very far it comes immediately right back to me.
I suppose it is in the realm of possibility that the vendor wasn't able to pay his rent and was evicted? That said, he'll be missed by me. I hope he can relocate!
I'm not sorry. I always hated that noisy shit.
i usually hate comments like this, but i really have to say it cuz i'm really honestly feeling it right now... Leave, interlard... leave this city and never come back.