Tompkins Square Park - Forty Years

Tompkins Square Park - Forty Years

For more than four decades, Tompkins Square Park has stood as the heart of New York City’s downtown community. From the squatter movements and riots of the 1980s, to skateboarding’s imprint in the 1990s, to the art & music scenes that continue to gather here today, the park has mirrored the changing face of downtown culture.

This book brings together the work of photographers Clayton Patterson, Alain Levitt, Cheryl Dunn, Adam Zhu, and Nolan Zangas, five distinct eyes spanning generations, to tell the story of a space that is both stage and sanctuary. Their images capture protest, fleeting summers and endless nights that make Tompkins Square Park an archive of New York.

About Living Proof Magazine:

Living Proof is a cultural magazine and radio show that features skateboarders, legendary graffiti writers, as well as artists adjacent to the related cultures. Launching initially as a radio show in 2020, then as a radio show & magazine in 2023, Living Proof has featured the likes of Brian Anderson, Jerry Hsu, Andy Roy, Steve Caballero, Sean Pablo, Cyrus Bennett, Zered Bassett, Kunle Martins EARSNOT IRAK, RIME MSK, Charlie the Hustler BTM, Matty Matheson, Peter Sutherland, Leo Fitzpatrick and many more. Living Proof serves as a cultural archive of real-lives happening, unifying the cultures of skateboarding, graffiti, underground music scenes and related arts. Based in New York and distributed globally, the magazine drops on a quarterly schedule.