How to Squash a Squat
How to Squash a Squat

How to Squash a Squat

January 01, 1989 | 45 min

1989, New York City's Alphabet City and East Village. A year after the Tompkins Square Park Riot, squatters and their community allies try to stop the demolition of their building after an arson. Police forces occupy the neighborhood while the demolition continues. A portrait of an East Village that is no more. An homage to the voices and sounds of a neighborhood before its gentrification.

Genres

Documentary History

Cast

Share on social media

More Like This

Days of Black and Yellow
The Mission
Cavewoman
School for Danger
Straight Outta Compton
I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk
High Landz
BP Underground - Hardcore / Punk
Charlotte Gray
I Will Dance
Surviving Edged Weapons
Crass: The Sound of Free Speech (The Story of Reality Asylum)
Precedent
Town Bloody Hall
Hunger
Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle
Strange Days Diary NYC
Videocracy
Show Me Democracy
These were the reasons