In parts of Brooklyn, members of the diverse immigrant groups that make up neighborhoods like Flatbush set up makeshift studios and antennas to broadcast illegally on the dozens of radio frequencies already marked off for use.
Packed away haphazardly under the J/M/Z in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn sits a small alleyway — locally referred to as “Punk Alley.” In it resides a used book store, a used record shop, a cassette-based experimental noise record label and, of course, KPISS: the resident pirate radio station.