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Dubbed "Zoo York" by graffiti pioneer and rapper ALI (Marc Edmonds), founder of the Soul Artists, the subway tunnel provided a "scene" where crews of Manhattan graffiti artists gathered at night. The tunnel itself was a cut-and-cover construction project built through Central Park from 1971 to 1973.
Zoo York may refer to: Zoo York (Central Park), style and social philosophy inspired by 1970s New York City graffiti art subculture; Zoo York (company), American company focused on the skateboarding market "Zoo York" (song), by Lil Tjay featuring Fivio Foreign and Pop Smoke "Zoo York", a song by Oakenfold from the 2002 album Bunkka
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Zoo York is an American company focused on the skateboarding market. The company currently commercializes skateboards, t-shirts, hoodies, windbreakers, hats, and fanny packs. [1] The company's name was taken from one of NYC's oldest skate crews, Soul Artists of Zoo York. [2]
The Soul Artists of Zoo York were a loose-knit collective of skateboarders and graffiti artists. [1] [4]The Soul Artists of Zoo York skated an abandoned bowl in Van Cortlandt Park called the "Deathbowl," which was the origin of the name for a documentary on the NY skate scene: Deathbowl to Downtown, narrated by Chloe Sevigny, released in 2008.
The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, New York.The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
A cynical social observer with a quick wit, ALI coined the term "Zoo York" [5] to describe the absurdity displayed in the attitudes of New Yorkers during what he called the Sick Seventies. It was the name he gave to a subway tunnel being built underneath the Central Park Zoo at the time, which became a haunt of graffiti writers in the early 1970s.
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