I’m not sure if you know but ABC is a city-owned estate and we’re renting this space. They’re trying to evict us but we’ve been squatting on the upper floors. It’s not easy being an 18-year-old living in the rotten apple’s Lower East Side. Well, its a paradise to me but also a struggle. Its getting really cold and… I mean, I really don’t have good family but I met these kids on Rivington a while back and share so many of the same passions and we really have each other’s backs. It kinda feels like the T.R. house in Suburbia but not 1984, ’cause it’s 1994. It’s kind of funny–us squatting here has delayed the ousting process but a few of us have been arrested. The government, they don’t understand our growing community. They don’t understand this solidarity. Read the rest of this entry »
