Richard Yelle talks about operating a glass facility in New York City. Oral history interview with Richard Yelle by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 17, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:04.

Richard Yelle: Well, just think of—as an analogy, a pirate radio station, most of the artists—organizations in New York were like [laughs] like a pirate radio station. You know, they were just operating, they just started, they just opened their facility, and New York City, as I mentioned earlier, was dangerous and dirty and it was broke. And, although when you attracted the attention of a building inspector it usually meant problems or Con Edison. You tried to avoid them and you just kept going. Soho wouldn’t have been Soho if, if people paid attention to the building [laughs] inspectors. People just moved into those buildings, they were all empty.