Le Petit Versailles

Peter Cramer and Jack Waters had been artistic collaborators in New York since the 1980s. They became co-directors of the ABC No Rio space after curating an art exhibition there together,^[4] and both joined the Visual AIDS collective. The garden site on 2nd Street had been an auto chop shop, before that was demolished. Cramer and Waters built the garden together, in 1996.

In the aftermath of September 11 attacks and the protests against the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, the garden became a refuge and organizing space for activists.^[1] In 2006, the garden began broadcasting footage from its arts events on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, a local public TV channel, as LPVTV.

• Official website
• 2018 oral history interview with Jack Waters
• 2007 oral history interview with Peter Cramer and Jack Waters
• LPVTV videos Archived 2021-03-20 at the Wayback Machine

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