Local legend Adam Purple is featured in the Daily News. The 82-year-old activist/environmentalist has been busy in Williamsburg working with Times Up.
Excerpt!
“Brooklyn is alright, but it’s been yuppified,” said Purple, who rarely goes by his real name David Wilkie. “What do they do that’s rebellious? What do they do that’s adventurous?”
Read the whole article here. Read more about Adam Purple's LES history at Vanishing New York.
Amazing!
ReplyDeleteI saw this great man on avenue A once, shook his hand, and gave him all the money in my pocket.
he should be esteemed and given a high profile job at the parks dept! Dude knows his mo'f*ckin SHIZZ!!!
Some advice from Adam: "Always ride a bike"
ReplyDeleteHell yeah, take that you non-bikers. Squares.
Fond memories of his color/mystique brightening what was a very dangerous anddangerous East Village when I grew up there in the '60's and '70's. Glad to see he is still alive!
ReplyDelete“What do they do that’s rebellious? What do they do that’s adventurous?”
ReplyDeleteConsume, consume, consume. And be unoriginal thinking they're cutting edge and original by cut, copy, and paste -ing the '90's in their prosaic lives.
He looks great for 82
ReplyDeletehe and his wife were a very odd sight in their tie dye with their compost on their bikes in the 70's. the world has caught up with their ways of thinking.
ReplyDeletePurple Power!
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember him up in Central Park, collecting horse manure that he would pedal back downtown to use as fertilizer. That's a dedicated man, and his garden was a wonderful creation.
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