It was the '60s. The era of change, war, and rebellion. Huey Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was a revolutionary with a vision, first for self-defense against racist policing and then for an “intercommunal” world of bottom-up social reform. He wanted to change the...
"It was just us and our hard work and our kind of vision and ideals and propensity for picking around in each other's psyches. We spent extraordinary amounts of time just yakking with strangers we were putting up." But they found that The Well environment was somehow more impervious to...
Manhattan may be the most famous island in the New York City metropolitan area, but there's another, much smaller isle located in the East River—between two other boroughs, the Bronx and Queens—that has a fascinating but little-known history. It's calledNorth Brother Island, and it's in...