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Banksy?s Jean-Michel Basquiat

Banksy’s Basquiat being stop and searched (2017) on show in Glasgow. Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images. All the cops working the dope streets of the lower East Side knew Jean-Michel and that he carried money with him. He was a steady source of cash and a golden goose For the 9th precinct. Unlike Michael Stewart […]

FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith

New York City teetered toward the edge of bankruptcy during America’s economic stagnation of the mid-70s. The Daily News splashed the headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD, after the president refused to bailout New York. The mayor was forced to slash every department’s budget to the bone and the city collapsed into a ruin rivaling […]