Clayton Patterson Lower East Side Partner Elsa Rensaa Passed Away — they were groundbreaking before they were ever iPhones with video giving us the capacity to be citizen journalist, Clayton and Elsa made history filming the riots in Tompkins Square Park and police beating people. The NYPD were out of control and they broke the law. The NYPD crossed the line.
Artists turned citizen journalist documentation became part of their art history, including a lower side they documented it, but they were also part of it and I would unwitting layer unintentionally follow that line that’s part of I guess what links over these years Clayton manages to keep on going I don’t know how And he still is concerned about documentation and history in the future of his archives. ….
****I spoke to Clayton last night. I normally don’t talk to people late at night ….he had been on my mind. I reached out to him earlier in the day and then I got swept away by the day so we had a long talk and I just feel like I’m dying. I feel like I’m “ younger than him, but I’m just dying and he told me the words that I would need to live to change my attitude to take all the pain and suffering that has killed me the PTSD, the violence, the betrayals, including a doctors office where I should’ve been safe in the 1st Precinct and it went on and on the Crimes, but he told me a simple way to save my life and it just involves your mindset, but I don’t know if I can do it. I feel like I’m on the side of a cliff too exhausted, but I appreciate his generosity. We’re not the same politics, but I think that’s why someone wrote a book calling him the godfather because he embraced everybody, however diverse the mosaic.
He Elsa and I teamed up to help Gym mosaic man go into the hospital for hip surgery we cared for Jesse, one of the most accepting beings of the lower side, and Jim paid us by turning on us so it’s part of his mental illness
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Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side: Patterson, Clayton, Ferrell, Jeff: 9781583227459: Amazon.com: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Resistance-Radical-Social-Political-History/dp/1583227458
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lower-east-sides-folk-historian
https://www.instagram.com/claytonpattersonshow?igsh=cWNnajcwNmw3NGx1
Captured (for sale on Amazon) film video history lower east side but he broke ground capturing NYPD breaking the law crossing a line beating people —— he went on Oprah and talked about “little brother” filming “big brother — later iPhones came to be and we all had the potential to become citizen journalists and capture Injustice, Abuse of Power, crimes including by people suppose to protect us create safe places, video documenting the People being lied to politically or any way = truth out!
Clayton: Godfather of Lower East Side Documentary―A Graphic Novel: Voloj, Julian, Portnoy, Eddy: 9781682618981: Amazon.com: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Clayton-Godfather-Lower-Documentary_A-Graphic/dp/1682618986
https://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2025/10/what-i-say-in-this-youtube-is-me.html
Running punch to my head hole punched in my retina retina attaches to brain head shaken created floaters both eyes….
I was not legally blind but in that direction my patient rights patient safety violated and corrupt players I criticized on my blog like Joe Tacopina Chad Seigel did they break laws Oct 7 2012?
My life would end in a way Oct 1 2012 …
Hard to even have friends … but Clayton reaches out and I am always surprised he is alive hoe enduring in so many ways… I feel like I am dying but Clayton last night like my young MD both optimistic for me … I don’t feel it I feel exhausted like my brain melting ptsd like I have been punched in the head … over and over for over 13 years
https://www.huckmag.com/article/clayton-pattersons-battle-save-nycs-alternative-culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Patterson
https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/clayton-patterson-s-front-door-residents-and-writers
