The manager, Dorian Mecir, had a heart of gold. We recorded at a studio called Greene Street Recording Studio on Greene Street between Houston and Prince. Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. It was sort of 11 to 7. There were no movie theaters, bookstores, galleries or photocopy shops, so my entrepreneurial idea, which failed, was to open one, Chelsea Copy. In 1981, I had just gotten back from six months on the road with James Brown. Sometimes I didnt eat for two days. In 1972, the New York State Human Rights Commission ruled that reduced-priced ladies days at Yankee Stadium discriminated against men. Im a child of the Midwestern upper-middle class. Ann Magnuson performing at Kenny Scharfs opening atop his Ultima Suprema Deluxa Cadillac on November 14, 1983. Hear Rosie Perez talk about her first time at CBGB: Six days a week I arrived every morning between 7:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. The Penrosenamed for a neighborhood in Cork, Ireland, where two of the owners grew upbrings a bit of the indie-chic East Village to Gossip . I was just out of high school. People thought I was a little crazy. There were lines around the block the theater starting bumping it up to a second and third screening. It was a restaurant a modest place, like an Italian restaurant but really it was an actors hangout. Upper East Side Aug. 11, 1972 It was a case of mistaken identity, revenge for the sensational rubout of Joey Gallo at Umberto's four months earlier, only this one led to two innocent meat. Cramped beer and shot joints with names like the Blue Moon, Czar Bar, and Richters were all vying for the attention of this influx of recently graduated young adults who wanted to go out, but had little money to do so. 25 East 61st street is the rear extension of 673 Madison Avenue, an Italianate brownstone built in 1871 by architect John G. Prague as part of a project for the developer John McCool which included a row of 5 brownstones on Madison Avenue, and 17 houses on 61st street. The object was to keep stitching no matter what happened to the fabric. hip-hop open mic nights and more than a few not-entirely-cool bars around the Upper East Side. The whole reason I was able to raise money for my causes was because of him. A walk across the Williamsburg Bridge just to save a subway token. And when she gave me the phone back, she went into [hysterics]. Theyd say, Yo, Dap, listen to that. All the hip-hop artists came [to the atelier]; there wasnt any other place that catered to rappers. But I did it anyway. Peter lived on the absolute margins he never had anything. Kyle: It has a window with LED lights around it, and a tourist was in the window and seemed to be making a humping motion. Galleries and museums didnt exhibit their work at that time. We made an altar to a llama, and everyone dressed in kind of Greco-Roman outfits I wore a toga with sequins. So we were really supporting ourselves! I had just moved the gallery to Franklin Street in TriBeCa from West 57th Street. Everybody was happy for him and saying, O.K., its possible, were in the right place, were doing the right thing., I remember the first time we went in and read A Soldiers Play out loud, we were all just staring at each other going, Oh my god, this is amazing. Two days later, Adolph came in, threw his script down, and said, Im ready! And we all looked at him like, Okay, fine! So we all threw our scripts down, too, because everybody had learned the play in like two days. Nobody was talking to him, probably because they didnt recognize him. It was all exposed wood and brick, and it had a tiny fireplace, a futon, my books, a sink and a stove. It had no closets, so somebody put up a bar so I could hang clothes. Some of the best bars on the Upper East Side cultivate the feeling of "Old New York.". Thelonious Monk or Nina Simone or Gloria Lynne would stop by to visit them, so I grew up around these real bebop superstars. 1982 Having introduced nouvelle cuisine at Ma Maison in Los Angeles, Chef Wolfgang Puck presents "California cuisine" to patrons of his new chic-casual Sunset Strip restaurant, Spago. Ever since I moved out of my parents house in Astoria to live in the city, Ive always lived within the same two or three blocks of the Upper West Side. I had reached 30 and was having to face how hard it was going to be. Hed just been released from prison, and his prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast, had been published that week. Separated from the commotion of the day, I would stretch my own canvases and start to paint in the dormitorys common room. It was like a village, yknow? Thurston was a scholar. They were spinning on their heads, the cops said. I didnt know anything. The sidewalks along St. Marks over to Astor Place were just as lively they were a sort of souk where you could buy back what the junkies had stolen from your apartment. One night I saw Jack Smith do a reading, and I can still remember this line, which kind of sums up that era: The cockroach caravan crosses the rented desert of exotic landlordism.. A group of artists, friends and a few colleagues, including Marcia Tucker, the founder of the New Museum, demolished what remained of a former meatpacking company and converted it into JAMs new space. In school, I never fit in at all. You werent afraid of getting it, you were wondering when are the symptoms going to show up. The front window was a queer Mount Rushmore, with the heavyweights looking out onto the street: Rene Ricard, Bill Rice, Peter Hujar, Paul Thek. I existed like a soldier preparing for combat. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. I couldnt believe he knew the same stuff I listened to as a kid in Greenwich Village. Originally part of the Pillsbury Corp., the restaurant was founded in 1976. Here, women can drink all they want all night long for absolutely nothing, wrote The New York Times in covering the phenomenon in April of 1991. [Kim] would work one day, and Id work the next. (How many spinal taps can you give to someone under a refrigeration blanket whose fever wouldnt break?) Wed go: Look, even if you dont know how to strip wood, were gonna show you: This gooey mess that you have to brush on the wood, wait till it bubbles, then you scrape it off. Most mornings, we would wake up and check the answering machine. 80s Night Clubs in New York City, NY About Search Results Sort: Default All BBB Rated A+/A Coupons View all businesses that are OPEN 24 Hours 1. I would stay in the clubs, but I wouldnt dance. It needs to be said that, technically, ladies nights were illegal in New York and had been so for quite a time. If you remember Flemings, this event is for you: Saturday, December 4 Fleming's Reunion Party The quiet and space afforded clarity. The whole neighborhood was a lower-middle class suburban area. Their approach was direct and curt, no frills not self-consciously art-directed no frills, but Old Country, 19th-century no frills. In 80, I got a job at Todds Copy on Mott Street. Across the street from my apartment was the McBurney Y.M.C.A., so that was my gym, and halfway down the block was something called the Squat Theatre, home to an avant-garde Hungarian troupe, and kind of a drug spot. We also created a percussive orchestra that was all pots and pans and a lot of racket, and that was the debut of the band Pulsallama. You couldnt do nothing stupid or bad because your friends mother was your mother, too. I tried to write every single day, first thing in the morning, 10 a.m. And the hair. The venues didn't matter to me. I could wake up in the middle of the night and hear his typewriter going. Tuesday Trivia. Mornings spent alone, writing in a studio in the West Village. In 1981, I suggested a bacchanal a night of pagan merriment as spring was coming. The 1980s era of Wall Street expense accounts had evaporated as young professionals, for the first time in a while, actually had to pay for their own drinks. These parties inevitably blur together in my mind, but I remember that night because a week later, Abbott stabbed and killed a waiter at the Binibon cafe, a few doors down the block. Id paid high school kids to go on Thursday afternoons after school and hand out fliers. Its until you pass out.. At the end of the night I would walk all the way home. I would take my work from that lab it was already mounted with dimensions like 48 by 72 inches, 40 by 60 inches carry it to the E train, down the stairs, then get off at Canal and carry it down to Leonard and up my four flights of stairs. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. It was a very different kind of neighborhood from the one I grew up in in Harlem just starting to be gentrified. Its a great show. We stared at each other for a moment. Thankfully, most seemed to only be of the public urination and inconsiderate noise variety, angering wealthy locals. Peter cant keep going that way, not in the city that its becoming now. It is demeaning to women to be treated this way, claimed Long Island man Richard Savino in 1984. May 6, 2009. It was a real neighborhood place, with people dropping in and hanging out, and a sort of day care center for neighbors who wanted us to watch their kids. They were on 51st or 52nd between Fifth and Madison. I was working at the Whitney and helping to open different museum branches, so I was shuttling between 42nd Street, Stamford, Conn., and the downtown branch, which was just a few blocks from where I lived, on Front Street in the South Street Seaport area. In retrospect, Bowie was ahead of the curve. Carver came by, down from Syracuse on some publishing business. High-end lounges and clubs were beginning to pop up downtown, especially around the flourishing Meatpacking District, and if plenty of ladies would continue to drink for free at places like Lot 61, Moomba, Spy Bar, and Marquee, it was the male customers who were usually paying for the overpriced bottles of Grey Goose and Patrn. I would get back home [from school] at a decent hour, four in the afternoon. The other was he wouldnt say anything, just [shrug] that meant it was a failure. Basically, we walk in, get our free drinks, give the scum dirty looks and walk out, a college student named Rebecca said of the Far Out Lounge. When Canadian-born club impresario Peter Gatien came to New York City in the early '80s, after. I lived and still live in a large duplex at the corner of Park Avenue and 80th Street, in a 1907 building designed by Delano and Aldrich. Women would crowd around oil drums turned into tables and, while standing on sawdust floors, pound cheap beer and well liquor. I never had to show the clothes I was making to a buyer, because they always saw it in the clubs first: at Danceteria, at Roxy, at Kool Lady Blues Friday-night party. I made sure there was a hot tub in there. Sometimes it was just me and my sister walking up to the velvet rope or the bouncers, or it would be a group of us, and they would let us right in. We were outside the Mine Shaft [a raunchy 1970s/'80s gay sex club on Washington Street]. Everywhere else it was club kids and b-boys with foxtails hanging from their clothes; I had the shoulder pads and the spiky hair and all that. They were relatively small, rundown theaters; they tended to have a fair amount of drug use going on. $5 all-you-can-drink that was my bar menu., 2014 - 2023 VinePair Inc. Made In NYC, Bartenders: Now's Your Chance To Experience Barbados. Guide. It was 1990 on Manhattans Upper East Side and, after the extravagant 1980s, the neighborhood was in the throes of a countrywide recession and unemployment was on the rise. I was worried about how the crowd there would receive the Carters. I was part of the backpacker renaissance; you brought a backpack, so youd have a change of clothes. It was just shattering, but of course I had to pretend that this was the surprise that I had brought my board to see. A few blocks away was the Ninth Street Bakery. Giuliani sending his goons around to raid things. You wanted to be there when it was happening, and then youd migrate at around 2:30 to an after-hours club. Team Infatuation August 19, 2022. Hip-hop artist Prince Whipper Whip of the hip-hop group Grand Wizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five at the Sparkle in the Bronx. Many of the bars of this era were, in fact, themed, and sometimes cheesily so. You could work, then not work for a while, get by. They were supposed to be 17 or 18. Ave., NYC It felt like there was all this dangerous energy. Wed go to bed among the broken glass, booze and old cigarettes. My dormitory was at the corner of East 14th Street and Union Square. Thats where youd run into people, share breakfast. The elevated West Side Highway, meanwhile, was a place you could ski. The Landmarks That Made New York a Cultural Capital, Uptown or Downtown? It's just happening. I went from area to area of the performance space, onstage and offstage. It was the only Xerox machine below 14th Street, so every artist used it. And Im not a corporate client, so please give me a break. I moved to Leonard Street and stayed there until five or six years ago when I was made to leave my rented loft. We were both rather exotic in each others eyes. Police barricades up and down Second Avenue. ), When we go out drinking, we go for broke, one man told The Times. It was nothing but rejection. Bars & Music Mama's Bar. One day, I was walking uptown to an appointment just before noon, and coming toward me was Robert Duvall. Answer (1 of 6): While not classy in haute cuisine, these long-gone restaurants were very popular in the 70s and 80s too: * The Caramba! The people who were chic, the downtowners, pretty much just wore black that could instantly give you a look. James Brown and Ali because of them, I basically became a made guy. Bronwyn Thomas, she was like happy feet on her toes. I did shows in there at night, including the first solo show David Salle ever had. Pretty girls in pajamas peeked in on my occupied space. Or I would throw a party. Brandy's Piano Bar. We just called it The Bar, which morphed into Ze Bar, like with a fake French accent. Id make sure everything was in place and see what the new orders were. My fantasy was to rent one of these theaters on 42nd Street and show my movie alongside Mad Monkey Kung Fu. A guy in a black cocktail dress teetering precariously on the sill of an open window in a rear apartment (Room 410) of the Chelsea Hotel, screaming into the night. People like Jean-Michel [Basquiat] would come in, who was somebody you knew from Tier 3 and the Mudd Club; someone your age. Between 1981 and 1983 I was commuting between New York and a rented apartment in Rome, researching a book about my Italian ancestry that would be called Unto the Sons. My wife, Nan, would visit me in Italy as often as she could, but always briefly. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. The point of ladies night is to get women into bars and get them drunk so that men can score.. Wed bring the coffee back to the lot and keep filming. She was very busy editing books of her own, among them Jane Fondas Workout Book, Thomas Keneallys Schindlers List, Margaret Atwoods Bluebeards Egg and Rosalynn Carters memoir First Lady From Plains. At one point Nan traveled to the Carters home in Plains, Georgia, an ordinary split-level with an imperial iron fence that had been Richard Nixons from Key Biscayne (the Carters didnt believe in waste). Or wed go around to try to get breakfast from our friends, ringing doorbells to see who was up. Brooklyn: Empire Roller Skating Center, a rink with a sound system built by Richard Long that was a favorite of Chers; Albee Square, a public mall where Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie used to hang out. I got so tired of getting mugged on my way home. Since no ones making them, they dont.. Carina Finn July 6, 2022. Everything was different for me. Todd Jorgensen ran the Xerox machine in Jamie Canvas, the art supply store in SoHo everybody went to. Learn more about historic floods. I returned to New York in 81 after 10 years as an expat. Amura ($$) Japanese Menu Available. At Elaines, for instance, you would find people Elaine was floating. It had a tub in the kitchen, a tiny little toilet bowl in a closet of a room, one narrow hallway room and a slightly bigger front room maybe $210. By 1984, Id put my kids in boarding school and left to live in Paris for five years. My apartment was four stories up, and I got a place on the floor below for Kim Gordon. We didnt pay rent, but it was meant to be $300 a month. It had the best hamburgers and gin martinis. The writer Gay Taleses social calendar for October 1983. I remember being in someones loft it might have been [artist] Brian Hunts with a group of friends, watching the inauguration on a little black-and-white television. My sense of time was completely distorted. And then we had Robert Rauschenberg, a rascal and a great man. Owner Sean Fleming's band was among the many popular bands that would perform there. I really had no business buying my loft on West Broadway in those years. In the mornings, usually around 11 a.m., Id go to one of the coffee shops around the corner on Avenue A. Odessa was one, and Leshkos was the other. Then we packed up our stuff, went back to the coffee shop to have breakfast and headed home. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. You could say I was not a considerate neighbor. You simply traveled to where things were happening. Taylor Mead had a running tab at multiple bars. We had a bar and some makeshift situation where people would collect the door charge, $5 or $10 maybe. Whats she doing now? She was like [hyperventilating]. 1. Youd see people that you hadnt seen in months in the street with KS [Kaposis sarcoma] lesions; people would just disappear. Peter had no small talk at all. And yet, over the years, bars continued to try to offer ladies night deals (whether discounted or completely free drinks) and various factions had tried to stop them. Thats pretty good.. I had this idea I was going to be a writer; if I couldnt, there would be no point to my life. The gallery space was on the first floor; our offices were in the basement. . One of his favorite pieces was the Alto Rhapsody of Brahms, sung by Dame Janet Baker. Together, this chorus of voices assembled, edited and condensed creates a compelling mosaic, revealing a city bustling with creativity but also slowly emerging from its recent near-bankruptcy, with upscale restaurants just blocks away from rubble-filled, graffiti-painted lots. Bars & Clubs Gay Bars. draw in the skirts that bring in the suits. It was a very quiet audience. I would often wake up in the middle of the night as the city slept. Then I would go to Macys and go to the $10 rack. Four days a week, I was studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute down on 15th Street. If it was a Thursday, Id be rushing to get all my work done, because that was the night I went dancing. Otherwise neighborhood wasnt as important as finding a space one guy I knew, the photographer Patrick McMullan, lived in the coat-check room of a former hotel. We had a studio on Bleecker near Seventh Avenue. After three, four months there, we decided to turn our loft into a nightclub. One of my responses was to just keep working. So I flipped on the light and said, Good Morning! By the end of the relationship, I was living there. Theyre exploiting women by using them to attract men, claimed its spokeswoman, Daveda Copeland. The deal with him was he never had to come and he never had to give any money, but he would give his name and a recommendation. I was living at almost the exact point where the Village meets the East Village, in the Colonnade Row building, right across the street from the Public Theater. Talk to the actors as they drifted in about your day, talk about whos auditioning for what. His name opened every door for me. He has one book but he doesnt have the next two. (212) 861-2290. Arent the both of us up early, I said. 1442 1st Avenue, New York, NY . It's now a Samsung store. That was the best place to get fresh bread and rugelach and sweets. He goes, What the hell are you doing to my theater? He said, Dap, whats she doing? I said, Shes gasping for air now! And I go attend to her. Pizza with Duck Sausage wins quick stardom. But it had started with a simple idea: What if a bar just let women drink for free? Foursquare. Things were 50 times as bad in Brooklyn as they were in Manhattan. Then our leading lady, Susan Berman, broke her leg, and we had to wait for her to get out of the cast. There are a lot of places to eat eggs and pancakes in the middle of the day on the Upper East Side. I started JAM in 1974 to show the work of African-American artists and other artists of color. Or worse. Everyone associates me with Jesse Jackson, but actually James Brown is the person I consider most like a mentor. And Dynasty. Ive never gotten over Dynasty. And then people started dying. We would sit at this coffee table and listen to records for an hour. Rival crews had been dancing in the subway, and it turned into a fight over who had won. Back then no one came in and said, Let me see your bar menu, says Block. Every parent, every grown-up was your mother and father. Xerox art was big then, so people would come in to make photocopies and plaster them all over. Maxi Cohen, Area, 1985, Ladies Rooms Around The World, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio and Chambers Fine Art. They were all drunk and wasted and they were happy. When our gallery, Gracie Mansion, started, both Gracie and I had other jobs, so we would switch off. [Wild Style] opened in 1983, [at the Embassy 3] on 47th Street and Broadway. It was raw: It had been a paper storage facility. Occasionally, a costumed employee they dubbed Jgerman would appear from the back wielding bottles of the potent German digestif in his hands, which he then free-poured into ladies mouths as the crowd chanted his theme song: Jgerman, Jgerman, if you cant drink it, no one can!, It was like feeding baby birds, recalls Capobianco. Plodding. There were problems, of course; you serve young men and women as much alcohol as they can humanly consume and theres bound to be. Pierre Francillon and Richard Alvarez, both artists and friends of fashion designer Andre Walker, in 1983 at the Middle Collegiate Church, where Walker held a fashion show. We didnt know how the virus transmitted. We had a prom, a debutante ball, a ladies wrestling night. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. Delmonico's, 21-23 William Street (1831-1923, intermittently thereafter) In 1831 Swiss brothers John and Peter Delmonico founded the city's first . 2. These places were used largely by working-class men, white, black and Latino, people who thought of themselves as straight and gay, many of whom were amenable to sexual things. I saw Jody Watley on television, and I was like, They dont steal silver, Im going to wear those!. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. Wed eat. Part of how they paid us was they had to strip some wood the house had five fireplaces, and the foyer was original, and all wood. Maybe he could do your book under that contract. So I went to the Factory and stood at a tall table with Andy and Bob, and Andy went through the dummy. He was like the Jimmy Fallon or Trevor Noah of that era. No ID check, nothing. And thats why Block thinks youll never again see an era like the early 1990s on the Upper East Side. Everything had my initials on it, or the name of somebody else on it; it was really crazy. Every night was a huge passeggiata with people perusing the blankets. Two editors at Simon & Schuster thought it was terrific, but they said, You have to produce this yourself, and we can possibly get you a distribution deal. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Lower East Side sort of a punk rock version of my mothers Junior League group, which I started with some other girls from the East Village hosted several events at the club. Hed walk in and be perfectly comfortable with the Duke of Edinburgh. The Mudd Club was one of my favorite spots to go out thats where I was introduced to James Chance and the Contortions and Talking Heads. When me and Run would go to each others houses and rap together, we would go into the attic. Very quickly, I realized it had potential to be a book. Coming from China, I was eager to be accepted in this new environment, which felt like a monstrous machine indifferent, its frenetic energy fueled by ambition. Up the street from my apartment was 8 B.C., a club run by two friends of mine. This was every Friday. I figure its costing me two bucks to put a girl in my bar for two hours, Reynolds claimed at the time. There was a thing I did every Friday night because my boyfriend [now husband, artist Carroll Dunham] worked at Time magazine, so I wasnt out looking for guys. Many of its bartenders have gone on to open their own places. Drunk patrons would dance on the bar top, well before Coyote Ugly, which would open in January of 1993, had popularized such shenanigans. Then we had Woody Allen. I started spending a third of my time there. Then you would call at 10, or 10 after, to check in with your agent to see if there was anything going that day. Mozart. You could be a young person in Manhattan back then, Block recalls. When the sun came up, we would get bagels or pretzels and get back on the train. LaTanya Richardson Jackson (far right) in Spell #7, 1979. The crass reason, of course, is because since the beginning of time, straight men have wanted to be drinking in the same place women are drinking because, yes, men are pigs. But something wasnt right. Id work for 12 hours straight, prepping for my show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. For a while I lived on the Upper West Side, on the parlor floor of a brownstone on 71st Street between Amsterdam and Columbus. To me, the 1980s were incredibly liberating. In those days, there wasnt any downtown, so life was much easier. We became sort of like brothers. The landlord turned off the plumbing, so wed defecate into garbage bags and throw them out the window. I had half of the third floor, which was sort of the high-ceilinged fancy room, though it had long, long since stopped being fancy. As soon as he opened [his own place] I started working there, alongside Sara Driver [the filmmaker and partner of Jim Jarmusch]. I had no reason to stay awake or to fall asleep. Although it didn't hold up against Chili's, TGI Fridays, and Applebee's, there was a time when it was fairly ubiquitous throughout the states. And then off wed go! I remember the smell of the theaters so well popcorn and weed. I was 16 when we started going to the Roxy, and my guest list was 100 people, and we were kind of like the ornaments on the tree. I decided to start a music fanzine around 82; I called it Killer. When Todd wasnt looking, Id be running off copies and stapling them together. I didnt know what I was doing. Before that it had been pot. Like Geronimos Bamba Bay Cafe (a.k.a. There were very few artists there. It was social, the Upper East Side ladies. This was a luxury ski town, not the Upper East Side, and he had to ultimately tone things down. Sometimes it could just be too blasting. I tended to feel particularly safe in the theaters. 1. I never wore gold jewelry I didnt want to be a target. We cant put the money out for something this queer. Then [writer and editor] Bob Colacello saw the project and said, Andy Warhol has a three-book deal with Houghton Mifflin. The first club I did with Shawn Hausman, The Club With No Name, was on 25th Street. Madison Pub was an indispensable local dive. At night, if I was sitting around and wanted to amuse myself, Id walk down to Columbus and say hello. It was hard. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. I just wanted to be in New York. I loved to walk down Clinton to Delancey I called it Rue de Rves because it was filled with bridal shops with garishly colored dresses. Her father said, Dap, my daughter, shes driving me crazy. Jumbo-sized martini glasses smeared with ruby lipstick. I met David Bowie in 1982 at the Continental on West 25th Street, which had just opened. We used to have a TV with a VCR on at all times, playing MTV and the guys coming up. It was at Avenue A and St. Marks Place, but the windows looked out on an air shaft, not the park. I unlocked the door. I mean, thats when Brooklyn was Brooklyn, not some extension of the West Village or a place with good coffee. I said, To hell with it! Jasmine Guy auditioned; she wasnt of age yet. Some of them were open 24 hours a day, or they were closed maybe four hours a day for cleaning. I felt like I was having the best entertainment of my life, because people were going up and down the aisle, going, Loose joints People were talking throughout the whole movie going, Yo, shut up! It was just like the kung fu movies they were the same audience.

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