{"id":37726,"date":"2018-09-12T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T23:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=37726"},"modified":"2018-09-12T20:44:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T01:44:37","slug":"breaking-news-alfredo-martinez-busted-for-squatting-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2018\/09\/12\/breaking-news-alfredo-martinez-busted-for-squatting-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"~BREAKING NEWS !! ALFREDO MARTINEZ BUSTED FOR SQUATTING !! \/ NEW YORK POST"},"content":{"rendered":"

when . . . you have friends that are famous, lol !!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nSiblings spent years squatting in Chelsea Building: cops<\/strong>
\nby Stephanie Pagones, Lary Celona and Natalie Musumeci \/ NEW YORK POST \/ SEPT 12, 2018 \/ 3:58pm<\/p>\n

“Three siblings, 51 and 42, and their sister, 32, were busted after cops were called to the Chelsea building at 149 W. 24th St around 10:30 a.m. for a report of a suspicious<\/em> package, sources and cops said . . . ”<\/p>\n

read more: ‘Siblings spent years squatting . . .’ – NEW YORK POST <\/a> <\/p>\n

on a day when a “New Jersey police sergeant was busted for attempted tryst with an underage girl” . . .<\/a>
\n& there’s a huge<\/em> scandal erupting about “NYPD cops busted in major gambling & prostitution probe”, <\/a> . . . <\/p>\n

all the cops can hit back with is . . . ALFREDO ?!!!!<\/p>\n

PIX – INSIDE THE ALLEGED . . . . . SQUAT !!!!!!!
\nof course, I GOT SOME . . . PIX !!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nALFREDO . . 149 W.24th St. Chelsea, NYC \/ PHOTO: SEPT 18, 2017
\nhe had told me recently, about a month ago, that . . . “the Koreans were getting fed-up” \/ the writing was on the wall \/ or, to be more precise: the locks had been changed.<\/p>\n

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\nat the time of the 2017 ‘studio’ visit, he was just ‘drawing guns on pizza boxes’ . . !!
\nbut, he’s seen some success ($$$$) lately, so maybe<\/strong> he had started assembling (again) 3-D \/ non-working \/ art replica assault guns, with bogus & real spare parts ? that he ordered thru the mail.
\nthat’s actually how he first established his street rep, that and, with huge life-size gun-toting robots . . at P.S.1.<\/p>\n

these 3-d assemblages, obviously, being solid sculptures . . . could sell for more money, than drawings on paper, or . . pizza boxes. PHOTO: SEPT 18, 2017<\/p>\n

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\nALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘GUN DRAWING’ \/ 149 W.24th St. PHOTO: OCT 1, 2017<\/p>\n

see more pix:<\/strong> ‘ALFREDO MARTINEZ aka THE REAL FAKE BASQUIAT \/ Inside the NYC Headquarters of the Notorious Basquiat Forger’ – artlovers<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nALFREDO MARTINEZ . . . artist \/ squatter \/ what else is new ?
\nPHOTO: OCT 1, 2017<\/p>\n

Alfredo, is as<\/em> hardcore as they get.
\nbut, actually for him to say, as he is quoted in the above NEW YORK POST article, that he . . “works in the FILM BUSINESS” – is not<\/strong> so far-fetched.<\/p>\n

1. in the 1999-2000 PSEUDO \/ JOSH HARRIS $1 MILLION DOLLAR MILLENNIUM PARTY, called ‘QUIET’, which later became immortalized in the ONDIE TIMONER \/ Sundance 2009 Grand Jury Prize winning, ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, a documentary biopic about Josh, and his <\/strong>shenanigans . . .
\nAlfredo ran the ‘Shooting Gallery’<\/strong> downstairs, literally a reconstructed shooting range where anybody <\/strong>could pick up a real assault rifle & learn to shoot it \/ under professional \/ film set pro \/ guidance. <\/p>\n

Alfredo & Josh managed to get away with this, by procuring a legal ‘film permit’ – holding that the entire event was a movie – which in a way – it was !!
\nwho says money can’t buy you anything – in NYC !!<\/p>\n

2. about the same time, Alfredo was the gun consultant & gun prop maker \/ specialist, for legendary filmmaker, JIM JARMUSCH project<\/strong> . . ‘Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai’ (1999), arguably one of his best films. alot of people, see Alfredo in the main character \/ which personally, I’m sure Jarmusch based on Alfredo, no doubt about it. <\/p>\n

3. fast forward, it was announced on JAN 2018 . . . at Sundance 2018,
\nthat BEN STILLER<\/strong> will direct JONAH HILL<\/strong> in an adaptation of the Sundance-Winning Documentary, ‘We Live in Public’ . . !!!<\/p>\n

let’s only hope it’s as funny and quick-witted, as Stiller’s . . ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ !!!!<\/p>\n

JONAH HILL is going to play . . JOSH HARRIS.<\/p>\n

since Alfredo is a big<\/strong> part of the Josh Harris story, (move over Jeffrey Deitch, art world ‘entrepreneur’ ?), and will surely figure large, in the feature \/ we all can’t wait to see \/ Alfredo is seriously<\/strong> hoping . . .
\nBENICIO del TORO<\/strong> . . will be tapped to play, who else, the ‘Real Fake Basquait’ forger, now notorious Chelsea squatter, Alfredo Martinez, himself.<\/p>\n

ARCHIVAL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
\n& UNDER COPYRIGHT \/ PRIOR PERMISSION REQUIRED re: ANY 3rd PARTY PUBLISHING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

when . . . you have friends that are famous, lol !! Siblings spent years squatting in Chelsea Building: cops by Stephanie Pagones, Lary Celona and Natalie Musumeci \/ NEW YORK POST \/ SEPT 12, 2018 \/ 3:58pm “Three siblings, 51 and 42, and their sister, 32, were busted after cops were called to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37726"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37756,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37726\/revisions\/37756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}