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Welcome to FFNY's podcast, where we celebrate the trailblazers shaping NYC's culture—past, present, and future.
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FFNY In Conversation: Clayton Patterson on Documenting the Lower East Side (opens the original)
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Clayton Patterson has spent decades documenting the people, streets, artists, activists, outsiders and underground communities of New York’s Lower East Side. In this conversation, we talk about the camera that gave him access to worlds most people never saw, the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot, the Pyramid Club, tattoo culture, community, gentrification, and what it means to preserve the people behind a city. Clayton’s archive holds thousands of hours of Lower East Side life, documenting a New Yo
G-Bo the Pro: From East Harlem Block Jams to the Keith Haring Foundation (opens the original)
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Heidi Hartwig talks with G-Bo the Pro (Gil Vasquez) — a man living a double life as a New York mixtape legend and a fixture of the Keith Haring world, where the two rarely overlap. From East Harlem block jams and teen nights catching Little Louie Vega at Heartthrob to the art market's games and Haring's staggering output, G-Bo and Heidi get into duality, reinvention, and finding your tribe. Plus the Knicks, bringing back the cassette, and where to find Keith's murals still standing around the ci
DJ MOS on Reading a Room and the Secret-Weapon Reset Record (opens the original)
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Ask DJ MOS how to save a stuffy, confused room and he doesn't hesitate: Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" to open it back up, Stevie Wonder's "All I Do" to send everyone home happy. In this episode, Heidi Hartwig sits down with the veteran New York DJ — born Masoud Obana Semple — to talk about the craft of reading a crowd and the thrill of dropping a record no one saw coming and watching them go off. Born in Brooklyn and raised in South Side Jamaica, Queens, MOS traces his obsession back to heari
DJ Hesta Prynn: Music Is a Medicine Cabinet (opens the original)
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Heidi Hartwig talks with DJ Hesta Prynne (Julie Potash) — from her Hot 97 upbringing and feminist rap group Northern State to a Rolling Stone review that got Questlove to bring them on tour with The Roots. He later taught her to DJ, leading to Bonnaroo, Q-Tip, and eight years spinning for Spotify. Now a licensed therapist building Music Connection Therapy, she and Heidi get into why music heals, what the dance floor is really for, and a younger crowd that calls Passion Pit "grandpa."
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