“No Your City,” the 8-part mini-documentary series that profiles some of New York City’s interesting “street characters,” is back for a second season. It opens with Larry the Birdman.
If you frequent Washington Square Park, you’ve probably seen Larry with pigeons in tow, but do you know his story?:
“I went to prison for 20 years because two guys broke into my house and murdered my wife and kids on December 20th, 1986. I caught them in my house and handcuffed them to my front yard and I worked them over with a piece of led wrapped in leather, and worked them up…from their ankles to their neck and them I chopped their heads off with a steak knife.”
“The birds help keep me normal. I am not violent anymore,” he says. “My childhood was messed up. Nobody interacted with me.” The birds, he says, help bring joy in peoples’ lives.
"No Your City" is an 8-part mini-documentary series profiling interesting characters in New York City, now in its second season. Episode 1 introduced us to Washington Square Park's Larry the Birdman, and episode 3 follows street performer Qween Amor as s/he (Qween Amor's preferred pronoun) twerks around Times Square. "Gay…
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Here's The Birdman, a 10-minute documentary on the proprietor of Rainbow Music, a shop stocked with LPs, CDs, cassettes and VHS tapes at the corner of First Avenue and St. Mark's Place. If you've spent any time in the East Village you've likely walked by; whether you've been inside or not largely…
