In 1979, Leonard Abrams started the East Village Eye, which chronicled the cultural life of downtown New York. Last fall, he handed the archives off to the nypl.
The political commentary reflects the crankish mood of bohemian New York during this period. Developers plan to gentrify Chinatown with luxury condo towers, and three hundred residents arrive in protest at the Community Board meeting. Mayor Ed Koch is interviewed. On the fortieth anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, the writer Josh Gosciak questions the instrumentalizing of this history for Zionist gains..
Fournier and Abrams met in 2014, at How Hip Hop Came Downtown, a panel Abrams organized at Printed Matter. After the panel, Abrams invited Fournier over to see his boxes, which he’d schlepped from apartment to apartment since the newspaper’s closing. Fournier says he was immediately sure of their value. He spoke reverently about the era of New York history they represented, which had first reached him in his Midwestern, suburban adolescence, and eventually drew him East.
When Abrams had gathered his permissions, Fournier began to reach out to his contacts at different archives. Courting the institutions took years. Archival time, Fournier says, moves slowly, and cultivating patience in himself and his clients is a major part of his job. Still, Fournier confesses that it was sometimes Abrams comforting him, on the days the placement felt impossible. At one point, a private buyer was interested in the collection, but it didn’t pan out.
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