Zoo York (Central Park)
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Zoo York is a style and
hippies
around the Central Park Bandshell in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Zoo York Tunnel
Dubbed "Zoo York" by
bellmouths for the Second Avenue Subway
.
During construction, the site was left unguarded at night. Unauthorized entry was discouraged by a tall
BMT
tracks on two levels; downtown tracks on upper level, uptown tracks on lower level) constructed on two levels about 100 feet (30 m) underneath the park, creating something of a subterranean monkey-house environment for invading street kids to climb around and scrawl graffiti on.
Tagging the wall
Praeger Publishers
, Inc.)
Origins of name
A
teenagers
made similar comparisons between themselves and the animals in the nearby zoo.
The
apartments, offices, subway cars and the like, and declared that New York City itself was "not New, but a Zoo!" He named the tunnel itself "Zoo York"—a perfect symbol, in his mind, of the dark psyche
of the inner city itself.
References
Further reading
- The Faith of Graffiti, documented by Mervyn Kurlansky and John Naar, text by Norman Mailer, New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1974.
