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Harold Feinstein: Last Stop Coney Island

Contemplating Home — Sometimes the hardest place to understand is the one where you’re from. Before his death in June 2015, photographer Harold Feinstein explained how he found inspiration just outside his front door.

  • Photography
  • Harold Feinstein

Tribe NYC are breathing fresh life into ’90s hip hop culture

Bass, boomboxes and big hair — Brooklyn-based art and music collective Tribe NYC are surfing a revival of old skool hip hop culture - and showing everyone else how it should be done.

  • 90s
  • Alex King

NYC skate shooter Pep Kim on feeling out of his comfort zone every day

Adventure Pop Quiz — South Korean photographer Pep Kim has documented New York City’s skate scene with a fresh, outsider’s perspective since arriving from South Korea.

  • Photography
  • HUCK HQ

Graffiti pioneer Lee Quiñones has kept on painting through street art's ebb and flow

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, graffiti pioneer Lee Quiñones shares how, through all the art world's changes, he's found new ways to keep on keeping on.

  • Art
  • Tom Fenwick

Clayton Patterson’s battle to save NYC’s alternative culture

Last days on the Lower East Side — The rebel photographer on how New York City lost its way.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

Clayton Patterson raises the ghosts of the Lower East Side’s anarchic past

Outlaw art — Patterson’s Outside In retrospective at Howl Arts bridges back to the grassroots creativity of pre-gentrification NYC.

  • Art
  • Alex King

Join the 33,000 artists in the mammoth Sketchbook Project

Crowdfunded, open source art — The Sketchbook Project is an open-submission collection of work from 33,000 artists, housed at the Brooklyn Art Library. Fill in a sketchbook and take part in one of the largest public art projects in the world.

  • Art
  • George Kafka

The untold story of the forgotten grandfather of rap

Documentary shines light on Hustler's Convention — Jalal Mansur Nuriddin aka Lightnin' Rod's pivotal album Hustler's Convention set the template for hip hop to come - but it disappeared underground and his contribution was never acknowledged. Now filmmaker Mike Todd is helping put the record straight.

  • Hip Hop
  • Alex Robert Ross

Step into the world's smallest museum

Prison tattoo guns, Fake IDs and bullet-proof backpacks — New York City’s Mmuseumm helps visitors make sense of the madness of modern society through its curated selection of cultural ephemera.

  • Film
  • HUCK HQ

Meet the leader of the Lower East Side’s last street gang

Colours, crime and second chances — Cochise led the Satan's Sinners Nomads street gang on New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1980s. After being sent to prison for the attempted murder of two gang members, he turned his life around and now makes art.

  • Film
  • Alex King

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