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ABC No Rio is a social center located at 156 Rivington street in New York City's Lower East Side that was founded in 1980. It features a gallery space, a zine library, a darkroom, a silkscreening studio, and public computer lab. In addition, ABC No Rio plays host to a number of radical projects in New York City, including weekly Hardcore punk matinees and the NYC Food Not Bombs collective. ABC No Rio seeks to be a community center for the Lower East Side, sponsoring projects and benefits for the community, as well as a center of radical activism in New York City, promoting "Do it yourself volunteerism, art and activism, without giving-in or selling-out to corporate sponsors." Image File history File linksMetadata Abcnorio. ...
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Social Centers are squatted buildings, mostly in Europe, which have been made into organizing centers for community support networks and structures such as free kitchens, free shops, public computer labs, graffiti murals, free housing for activists and travelers, recreation, public meetings, legal collectives, and spaces for dances, performances and art...
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A zine—an abbreviation of the word magazine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ...
A darkroom is a given space, usually a separate area in a building or a vehicle, that is made dark so as to allow photographers to use light-sensitive materials to develop photographs and film. ...
Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. ...
Hardcore punk is a subgenre of punk rock which originated in the United States of America in the late 1970s. ...
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History
Founding
 The outside of the ABC No Rio Beginning in the late 1960s, the Lower East Side of Manhattan was facing massive disinvestment by absentee landlords— by the late 1970s up to 80% of the area's housing stock was abandoned and in rem (seized by the city's government for non-payment of taxes). By the late 1970’s and 1980’s, a growing squatter movement and a small but visible “downtown” arts scene developed from within the burgeoning gentrification of the largely Puerto Rican community in the Lower East Side. Image File history File linksMetadata Abcnorio. ...
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ABC No Rio itself grew out of the 1979 Real Estate Show, organized by the artists' group Colab (Collaborative Projects), in which a large group of artists seeking to foster connections between these communities occupied an abandoned building at 123 Delancey St. and turned it into a gallery to show solidarity with working people in a critique of the city's land use policies — policies that in essence kept buildings empty until the area again attracted investment from developers — and a demonstration of what can be achieved through solidarity. The show was to explicitly "illuminate no legal issues" and it called for "no rights"; instead, it was "preemptive and insurrectionary". The show opened to the public on January 1st, 1980; it was promptly shut down before the morning of January 2nd by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ...
Colab is the commonly used acronym of the New York City artists group Collaborative Projects. ...
Delancey Street at Bowery Delancey Street is one of the main thoroughfares of Manhattans Lower East Side, running east from the Bowery to connect to the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn. ...
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In the following negotiations with HPD, the organizers of The Real Estate show were granted the use of the building at 156 Rivington Street. That space became ABC No Rio.
Current Legal Battles In the negotiations following the occupation of 123 Delancey St, ABC No Rio was given tacit permission to use its current building, located at 156 Rivington Street. ABC No Rio was in legal limbo for decades, sometimes a squat, sometimes paying a small rent to the city. In 1994, the city revoked ABC No Rio's commercial lease and stopped accepting their rent checks. The city planned on selling the building to Asian Americans for Equality for only $4000. This city tactic of attempting to divide non-profit community groups had been used many times to split groups that the city approves of from more confrontational ones was used frequently against Lower East Side squatters throughout the 1980s and early 1990s[citation needed]. In October 1994, in response to the attempted eviction, a few activists began squatting the upper floors of the building, which had been unused for several years. The squatters' presence stalled the eviction proceedings for several years, along with the community-based protests, which resulted in several arrests. ABC No Rio refused to give up the space and embarked on a project of raising money and reforming their image, to appear to be a more legitimate organization in the eyes of the city. In 1997, the city agreed to sell the building to ABC No Rio for $1 provided ABC could raise the money to renovate the building and bring it up to code, and that the squatters living in the upper floors of the building vacate to free the space for public use. After 3 years, the squatters, numbering around ten and including a young family, left their apartments, which were converted to a zine library, a "Food Not Bombs" kitchen, a silk screening studio, a computer lab, and other artist spaces. Over the years the city changed the scope and price of renovation several times, until 2004 when it was agreed that renovation could be broken into three phases, and that the property would be sold when the collective had the funds for phase one in place. On June 29, 2006, the city completed the proposed sale, selling 156 Rivington St. to ABC No Rio for $1, still including the provision that the organization must raise the rest of the money to renovate the building[1]. This article is about occupying land without permission. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
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This article is about occupying land without permission. ...
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2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ...
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Current Projects ABC No Rio is a collective of collectives; the individual projects enjoy a great deal of autonomy in their day-to-day affairs. Building-wide matters are addressed at building collective meetings. Some of the current projects are:
Punk and Hardcore Perhaps ABC No Rio's best known project is the Punk/Hardcore Collective. Since December, 1989, ABC No Rio has hosted weekly punk/hardcore matinees on Saturday afternoons. For most of the 1980s, the NYC punk/hardcore scene had been focused around the Sunday matinees at CBGB's. These shows devolved into weekly bloodbaths due to gang violence and, therefore, in November, 1989, CBGB's stopped hosting them. The new shows at ABC No Rio were carefully set up to be devoid of the violence, homophobia, sexism, and machismo that took over the CBGB's matinees, and to this day follows a policy of booking only independent (i.e., non-major label) bands that do not in any way promote sexism, racism, homophobia, and so on. ABC No Rio is also one of the few places in New York City to host regular punk/hardcore shows that are all ages. It is often considered the Gilman Street of the East Coast, having hosted and nurtured many of the bands in today's punk scene. The weekly hardcore/punk matinee opens between 3 and 3:30 on Saturdays, bands start at 4, the entry cost is US $6. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The outside front facade of CBGB CBGB (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a legendary music club located at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Zine Library ABC No Rio holds a large collection of zines formerly hosted by the now-defunct Lower East Side radical bookstore and infoshop Blackout! Books. The collection spans over two decades, and features many zines with a radical political perspective, or a focus on punk and other DIY artforms. Some titles include: Love & Rage, Maximum RocknRoll, Profane Existence, Slug and Lettuce, as well as many other less regularly printed or single-issue titles. This article or section should be merged with Zine This article needs cleanup. ...
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A bookstore. ...
An infoshop is a storefront or community space that serves as a node for the distribution of anarchist information, typically in the form of books, zines, stickers and posters. ...
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Maximum Rocknroll Issue #1 Maximum Rocknroll (also known as MRR) is a a widely distributed, monthly underground punk rock and punk culture fanzine based in San Francisco, USA. Featuring interviews, columns and reviews from international contributors, Maximum RocknRoll could be thought of as one of the most important presences in...
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Food Not Bombs The New York chapter of Food Not Bombs cooks on the second-floor kitchen of ABC No Rio every Friday and Sunday, and serves free food in nearby Tompkins Square Park. The program is currently on hiatus as the ABC No Rio fridge broke. Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
Logo Food Not Bombs is a loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others. ...
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Darkroom Collective The Darkroom Collective runs a public darkroom on the third floor of ABC No Rio that is open 6 days a week. A darkroom is a given space, usually a separate area in a building or a vehicle, that is made dark so as to allow photographers to use light-sensitive materials to develop photographs and film. ...
Computer Lab The Computer Center on the fourth floor of ABC No Rio seeks to close the digital divide by providing a public computer lab to the underserved Lower East Side. The computer lab is made up only of donated computers, and runs almost exclusively free or open source software. The digital divide is the gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies and those without. ...
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This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
Silkscreening Collective The Silkscreening Collective runs a public screen-printing studio, also located on the fourth floor. Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. ...
Books Thru Bars The Books Through Bars Collective sends free donated books to persons incarcerated in U.S. prisons every Sunday and Tuesday night. Prisons in the United States are operated by the Federal government. ...
COMA The Citizens Ontological Music Agenda is a project that hosts experimental music, poetry, and other forms of performance on Sunday Evenings.
Visual Arts Committee The Visual Arts Committee co-ordinates shows and exhibitions in the main gallery, as well as the bi-annual building-wide Ides of March group exhibit.
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External links - ABC No Rio official website
- New York Times article on the Real Estate Show
- 1996 Village Voice article on the eviction
- NY Times article on the resolution of the eviction
- Time Out New York article on the resolution of the eviction
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