Turn On And Tune In To This Video Of The East Village In The 1960s
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The Electric Circus and The Dom, 1967.
The corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place in 1968, which they AP said was "a center of Manhattan's East Village hippie society."
"The main stem of the East Village at St. Mark's Place, where hippies gather to 'do their own thing'" reads the caption, from 1968.
The caption reads: "East Village youths sling mops and brooms in the middle of the street during a neighborhood clean-up on East 3rd Street." April 1967.
"Louis Abolafia speaks to a young man outside of the clearing house he operates for runaways in the East Village on . Abolafia offers to act as a go-between for estranged parents and children. 1968."
The caption reads: "Two young women, or, hippies, dressed in beat attire, take part in a 'sweep-in' on Third St. in the East Village." April 1967.