play it loud

A BUTCHER'S #4

Louder! - 1980s New York

I took this photo in 1983 on 9th St & Ave C. unaware that it was the ‘home’ to Harley Flanagan, founder of Cro-mags. He was really young, 14 or 15 and a hardcore terror. No electricity or water - they got what they needed from the hydrant. Most of the stairs had been taken out to discourage squatting.

Many years later in 2019, aft…