East Village, Before the Gentry

Incredible slide show on NYTimes.com featuring the work of Q. Sakamaki, a Japanese photographer living in New York, who "has forged a reputation as a documentarian of conflict and suffering." His new book, “Tompkins Square Park,” returns to his early days in New York and documents the community around Tompkins Square Park in the 1980s.

"Documenting the Park" Slide Show