Early East Village collectives collapsed within a year of founding.

Evidence

This second riot led to another meeting with city officials and a series of more ecumenical concerts, including one by the Fugs. Tension was lowered but the bloom was off the rose. The East Village would always be contested turf. Over the course of the year, two Lower East Side experiments—the Free Store opened by a group of San Francisco Diggers on Tenth Street a block west of Tompkins Square Park and the Millennium Film Workshop, a free school-cum-equipment collective on lower Second Avenue, founded and initially directed by Ken Jacobs—would succumb to grim reality. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1073

Categorization

• XREF: The Diggers’ Free Store failing in New York (versus San Francisco) supports the reader’s framework that scenes are tied to specific material conditions, not portable ideas.