CLAYTON PATTERSON L.E.S.

more Anthony Haden Guest benefit night-

Clayton Patterson — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:33:10 +0000

Nick Taylor- the Gray’s Basquiat first band; Nick Taylor; William “Billy” Leroy & Penny Arcade; Club Hiro; photographer; Stuart Braunstein & William “Billy” Leroy; Penny arcade & Lorraine Leckie; Arnold Wechstler artist; City Marshall.

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Cochise back on the LES.

Clayton Patterson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:19:56 +0000

Cochise and the last real street gang of the L.E.S.

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | Documenting the streets and the people of New York City, in my case, mostly the Lower East Side, can yield rewards as well as have its drawbacks. Most of the negative incidents happen because people are high on drugs or drunk,…

Anthony Haden Guest

Clayton Patterson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:25:46 +0000

This waClick to view slideshow.s a benefit for Anthony who is suing Public Storage for selling a thirty-four year accumulation of papers, books, art, music, clothes and well, everything, completely without warning when they knew he was in London, and owed them just $1,350. It is now over two years since Public Storage (ranked at 986 in Fortune’s 2009 list of the top 1000 corporations in the US, by the way) sold Anthony’s belongings to a single individual, who paid $630.

The buyer is threatening to sell everything, an action which can be prevented by the posting of a $350,000 bond. Anthony hopes to either stop the sale of his property or at least recover his private papers and art of particularly personal significance in advance of what is likely to be a closely watched trial.