"If 'there goes the neighborhood' sounds like a familiar lament, that’s because disillusioned iconoclasts have been saying it for years. Meanwhile, St. Marks has withstood a rare degree of cultural and socioeconomic heterogeneity. Danger and discord have remained a part of the street's distinctive character, even as it has occasionally welcomed more mainstream interlopers, among them Calhoun's family. She wryly dedicates the book to her parents, the former actress Brooke Alderson and the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl, 'who looked upon the apocalyptic 1970s East Village and thought, What a great place to raise a kid.'"
John McMillian in The Atlantic reviews Ada Calhoun's St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street.
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