Come and commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Aug. 6, 1988 Tompkins Square police riot. This will be the first of a two-day event (Aug. 4-5), followed by another two day commemoration on Sept. 8-9.
After the Sunday show in the Park, there will be a multimedia presentation at the Museum Of Reclaimed Urban Space (MORUS), 155 Avenue C, starting at 7 p.m., linking two generations of resistance. Comic slide shows by Eric Drooker + Seth Tobocman, with music.
There will also be a screening of "By Any Means Necessary," a classic documentary on the Tompkins Square Movement. Additional speakers and performers to be announced.
Here's the lineup for the shows in Tompkins Square Park:
Saturday, Aug. 4
2 Jennifer Blowdryer
2:45 Professor Louie
3:30 Iconicide
4:15 Sea Moinster
5 Breakdown
Sunday, Aug. 5
2 D.I.Y.ing Breed
2:45 Zero Content
3:20 Skitzopolis
4 David Huberman
4:20 Team Spider
5 Choking Victim
Guest speakers will include:
• Father Pat Maloney
• Activist attorney Norman Siegal (formerly of the N.Y. Civil Liberties Union)
Rivera indicated that while she voted yes at the committee level, she is still working on securing some sort of rezoning or study for the surrounding neighborhood.
"I am doing this so that I can continue negotiations with the mayor's office toward the possibility of reaching a deal that would satisfy all impacted communities," she said before giving the thumbs up. Her district includes the project site, so she expects her colleagues to follow her lead, per council tradition.
@CarlinaRivera did you go back on your promise to protect the area? Pls I don’t want to believe it? @NY1 no historic protections? None? How? Why? @NYGovCuomo @BilldeBlasio @NYCMayor
— John Leguizamo (@JohnLeguizamo) August 2, 2018
Thank you, but very disappointed you seem to be approving development of the “Tech Hub” on 14th St. without protections for the neighborhood against further outsized developments. As I understand it Rosie agreed to that and so did you. What’s up?!
— Charles J Browning (@Cbrow46) August 3, 2018
It is very hard to understand @CarlinaRivera's action when she strongly verbalized support of the community and @GVSHP in it's oposition to the Tech Hub and now she voted in favor. We need an explanation. https://t.co/DYwLVLRoqA
— Rosalie Grossman (@GrossmanRosalie) August 3, 2018
@CarlinaRivera as a new homeowner (& 9 yr resident) of the village, I want civil+economic progress, and I also want reasonable rights to shield from irrational overdevelopment. You stood for both, what happened? What next?@GVSHP @evgrieve @RosieMendez @GrnVillageNYC @jeremoss https://t.co/PZwbEeuelE
— Kat Stewart (@kat_stewart_) August 3, 2018
When @CarlinaRivera runs again in 2021, the destruction of our neighborhood she unleashed today will be fully visible.
— Peter Feld 🔥 (@peterfeld) August 2, 2018
Her fingerprints will be on every glass office tower, condo & party hotel that goes up.
We will hold her #accountable. https://t.co/qyPyBQFhOV
Please join me in
— Smith Houses (@smithhouses) August 3, 2018
Thanking Councilmember Carlina Rivera for making sure that our communities are given more opportunities to succeed by approving the tech training center!
Thank you for remembering the thousands of NYCHA families in District 2 and 1.
Thanks @CarlinaRivera for doing the right thing for your constituents today by approving both the Tech Hub and more housing on E 33rd Street. The results will be job training for low-income NYers, over 40 permanently affordable apartments, and myriad other community benefits!
— Open New York (@OpenNYForAll) August 2, 2018
Thank you Councilwoman @CarlinaRivera for supporting the Tech Hub project on 14th Street. The 21 stories of #union work will provide great jobs for many hardworking New Yorkers, including many of our own members. We look forward to making these blueprints a reality. #1u #NYC1u
— CarpentersNYC (@CarpentersNyc) August 2, 2018
It is deeply disappointing that the Council would approve this rezoning without anything even remotely resembling the protections for the surrounding neighborhood that had been under discussion. This will turn Greenwich Village and the East Village into extensions of Silicon Alley and Midtown South, with more out-of-scale and out-of-character tech office buildings and condo high-rises going up in the area.
Councilmember Rivera publicly pledged during her campaign that she would not vote for the Tech Hub without the comprehensive neighborhood protections which have been under discussion for more than two years. This falls very far short of that pledge she made to her constituents.
[Yesterday's] vote is an important step forward for the innovative and inclusive Tech Training Center at 124 East 14th Street. We are dedicated to developing a new property model for inclusive community and economic impact, embracing and interacting with its local community and in permanent support of emerging and existing local entrepreneurs and industries.
We look forward to continuing our dialog with the community and local officials, working together to make sure the Tech Training Center responds to the community’s needs and becomes a vibrant addition to the iconic Union Square area in Lower Manhattan.
