Product Description

FUZZ ONE is the staggering, outrageous, true story of a raucous and wholly unsupervised childhood in the Bronx of the 1970s. Through Vincent Fedorchak's hilarious deadpan narration of a wild existence wrought with adolescent braggadocio, we are taken on a rough journey through a deteriorating Bronx jungle-wonderland where property value was plummeting and kids ruled the streets. Whether executing a bizarre graffiti mission in another borough with all the insanity of a special ops soldier, fearlessly tracking down Satan-worshippers camped out in the old castles in Van Cortlandt Park, or being the first white boy inducted into the infamous Ebony Dukes street gang, Fedorchak never flinches.

Filled with hundreds of never-before-published photos of graffiti art and Bronx cityscapes, as well as first-hand accounts of the exploits of legendary graffiti artists such as DONDI, BLADE, COMET, NOC 167, BOOTS 119, and others, FUZZ ONE is a guided tour of a heretofore uncharted Bronx underworld. This epic tale of youth gone awry fully captures an important era of cultural upheaval in New York City's history. It is set apart from other memoirs via the inclusion of more than 300 images, nearly all in color, that give the volume strong historical, anthropological, and cultural appeal.

I, myself, got stomped out in the trenches by outside agencies. I got dragged through the tunnels, through piss and glass underneath the subway track sewers. I got hit in the head with a blackjack, kicked in the balls, punched in the back of the head, and just plain cold-stomped out. -Fuzz One

By Vincent Fedorchak.

Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25 in./384 pgs / 300 color and 10 b&w.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #210753 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-15
• Released on: 2005-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Fuzz One and the Bronx Memory Lane
Reading this book is quite an experience. For someone like myself who came of age in the South, this was an eye openening experience. Fuzz One gives us outsiders a chance to live in the Bronx during the wildness of the seventies, to tag along on his many dangerous graf adventures, and meet the strange characters who float in and out of his life without the danger of getting jumped or thrown in jail. This isn't just a book for graffiti writers, it is a book for anyone wanting to really learn what urban living is all about.
Some of the tales may seem unbelievable, but I wouldn't pass up a chance to drink a beer with the author while he spins his legendary street stories. And after you read this book, neither will you. Thank God the South is way behind the North.

THE ABSOLUTE LICK
This is quite simply one of the best books I have ever read.
Fuzz takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through the graffiti underworld and the Bronx otherworld of the early 1970s. The story is told with panache, style, sympathy and humour.
Fuzz One, the heavy drinking and graffiti obsessed 11 year old, is a true hero.
And the pictures are booming.

Testify books lets the little guy speak!!!
Fun book. another piece of the puzzle for those obsessed with graf
history, and a great lowlife/wiseguy portrait of 70's Bronx NY for everybody else.of course when you put something out there with a personal point of view, everyones gonna say you exaggerated here and there to make yourself look cool...OF COURSE HE DID!! This aint history class...There's alot of great stuff in here. period.